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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. This week I want to speak about a new development in the Twitter retweet wars. In the first episode we have seen a massive rebellion against the new retweet functionality introduced by Twitter itself. A huge wave of resistance has forced Twitter and most third party Twitter clients to ensure support for the old school retweet with the added “RT” or “RT:”. This week we witnessed a new chapter of the retweet wars.

The evil Twitter empire has attacked the rebel forces by removing traditional retweets from Twitter search.

Both searches from the search box and by clicking on popular hashtags on the frontpage have been robbed of the “RT” containing retweets. Only retweets posted using the built in Twitter retweet feature were accepted in search results.
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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. This time a few days late due to the SMX London coverage. Today I’ll introduce the most common Twitter SEO best practices. Twitter SEO means at least 5 things:

1. Ranking with your profile for your name & brand
2. Ranking organically with your tweets in Google
3. Getting found in Twitter search and other tools
4. Making tweets spread virally by retweets
5. Entering Google results via realtime search

Plus many others I can’t cover today. Let us start with the basic best practices everybody should take into account.
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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Today’s topic: The vanishing value of retweets due to the attack of the Twitter bots. Continue Reading »

A few months ago I wrote for the first time about the new internal retweet feature on Twitter. I didn’t like it. Now it turns out as the feature is being gradually rolled out that seemingly most people don’t like it. So this time I won’t annoy you with another “it sucks” post I will try to suggest solutions where the new retweet feature actually sucks.
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Where’s the retweet? Can you see it?

The big news today: Twitter will finally accept retweets and make them part of the built in system or simply put the Twitter home page. At first I was moderately happy about this overdue move until I read the fine print.

In future Twitter will let people block your retweets.

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