The self-retweet has officially arrived, but should Twitter users take advantage?
Many of the social media site’s users are sceptical that new feature will be employed for anything other than the nurturing of narcissism
This is how to retweet yourself on Twitter, as of today: go to one of your own tweets, click the little loopy “retweet” button, choose whether to quote yourself or simply retweet your own tweet back into the timeline of your followers, and watch the magic happen.
But should you? Something about retweeting your own tweet feels like becoming that person at the bar who repeats the punch line of a joke two or three times if the first laugh was unsatisfactory.
“This was a good tweet,” you might say to yourself. “But no one ‘liked’ it. Let’s give the world another chance to be right about this tweet.”
On Twitter, understandably, many are sceptical that the new feature will be used for anything other than the nurturing of narcissism.
