11 Tweeting and Retweeting on Twitter

A tweet from Michael Miller shows a photo taken in the snow, listed with the hashtag "greatpic."

In this chapter, you learn how to create your own tweets—and retweet other tweets you like.

➔ Posting Your Own Tweets

➔ Retweeting Tweets from Others

Most people use Twitter to keep up with what’s going on by reading tweets posted by others. But you can also create your own tweets—and retweet tweets you like from others.

Posting Your Own Tweets

Posting a message to Twitter is called tweeting. The posts you make are called tweets.

You can tweet from your computer, using your web browser to access the Twitter site. You also can tweet from your mobile phone or tablet, using Twitter’s mobile app.

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