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We spoke about the echo chamber that retweeting on Twitter does a while ago. Well, on the same topic but a totally different reason Retweet is stupid argues Dave. Because its a vote of confidence on that particular tweet.

The problem I want to address is one when you get a Retweet gets taken out of context or “shortened” because it needs to fit into 140 characters.

I had a couple of instances of when this happened to me last week. My tweets were long (close to 140 characters), but when they were ReTweeted, the twitter user that did the RT “eliminated” a few characters so it could fit the 140 character limit.

Result – “Tweet taken out of context”.

Solution: Until there is a technical solution I recommend you plan on your tweets being 130 characters or less (if you have a long twitter handle, plan on 120 characters). That gives enough room for the word RT followed by your handle.

I really cannot believe I have put a post together for this, but getting “tweet quoted” out of context can be embarassing.