New Twitter Feature – Retweets Page

Have you noticed the new Retweets link on your Twitter sidebar?

Click one of the three tabs on this page to see retweets made by others, retweets made by you, and your own tweets that others have retweeted. The latter is the most interesting – this lets you see which of your tweets are getting the most retweets and who is retweeting you.  Knowing which of your tweets get the most retweets helps you plan what type of posts to do in the future. This page also makes it easy to thank people for retweeting you.

However, as astute reader @JAPak pointed out, it appears that only retweets created by clicking on the retweet icon found at the bottom of tweets will be included in this new feature. Retweets created the old fashioned way (by inserting RT at the beginning of the tweet) don't seem to be included on the new Retweets page.

What do you think of this new Twitter feature? Do you find it useful? Do you use the retweet button to create retweets, or do you manually enter tweets with the RT or via notation?

To learn more about using Twitter to promote yourself and your books, see the articles listed below and check out the Twitter Guide for Authors.

Why Do I Love Twitter?

Learn How to Conduct Effective Twitter Contests

What the Heck is Twitter and Why Should You Care?

How Often Should You Tweet?

How to Automatically Flow Your Tweets to Facebook

How to Make Your Tweets Appear on LinkedIn

Comments

[book publishers]

Random House's new marketing exec is apparently holding book marketeer level meetings as to how twitter can help promote books - the medium is a wonderful marketing tool, most big publishers won't miss out on this level of expertise.

[Avad_voip]

I do not have this feature on my Twitter account. Is Twitter currently rolling this out or do I have to request it.

[Dana]

Thanks for your note -- Twitter sometimes rolls out new features gradually, so it's possible they haven't made it available to everyone yet. Keep an eye out!

[Devremülk]

i like to read your posts. thanks for this one.

[Thomas Shaw]

I have a retweets button on my blog, the first thing i noticed after installing it, page load times took longer.
Is there anything i can do to speed it up again?

[Dana Lynn Smith]

Thomas, graphics can slow down page loads, but it seems strange that something so tiny would have any effect. I don't know what to suggest.