Twitter RT means retweet, similar to “repeat” or “repost”. People will naturally retweet a tweet when they like it. If you find something interesting, all you have to do is to hover your cursor on the lower right of a tweet, then click on “Retweet” and click on “Yes”. Like this:
Your retweet will then be visible to your followers. Just in case you are already an advanced user and you already know how to retweet, you might be asking now: “Why would my Twitter RT habits change?”. I tell you, Twitter is up to something. Predictions from the past that Twitter will one day rank tweets on a different basis is turning into a reality!
Yes and No. Yes, Twitter is cooking up something and no, it’s not your usual mac and cheese. It’s about the “popular tweet feature”. Since its creation by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide and is sometimes called “SMS of the internet”. On the other hand, Twitter is at least 10 years behind when it comes to search technology.
This is part of the announcement:
“The Search team is working on a beta project that returns the most popular tweets for a query, rather than only the most recent tweets. This is a beta project, but an important first step to surface the most popular tweets for users searching Twitter.You can expect many improvements as we tune and tweak our algorithms, but we want to give everyone a heads up so we can go over the implications for those consuming the search API.”
Providing a filterable index of web activity is an implication that the website’s usability will be more than real-time in the near future.
Since a lot of people are using twitter for their search engine optimization efforts, the next question will be – What’s the impact of this feature tweak to SEO? Twitter, including Google and Facebook, is one of the ‘giants’ of the big web and like what is happening to Youtube, it won’t be long till Twitter will have users using the search box more often and eventually it will be a “search engine” itself (limited to user tweets). People rarely click on tweets so some say popularity will be measured by “retweets” (RT). Given this is true, then it’s smart to start now.
In Twitter, your post can be “retweeted” in two ways: One is by adding “Please RT” your post and hope others will, or people will naturally “retweet” your post if it’s relevant to their interest or they find it beneficial for others. So it is important seo-wise, that you have a targeted network and an established relationship with them.