Why favour a tweet

Strange thing is that I can tweet and favorite on every other browser--in this case being Safari and Vivaldi--but not Firefox. This specific issue with twitter and a handful website is caused by the absence of referral information on image request. Users of Configuration Mania extension or other privacy enhancing extensions may have configured the setting to withhold referral information, which leads to certain websites e.

A focused solution is opening about:config and searching for the string network. Search Support Search. Learn More. Issue developed on October 12th, Chosen solution Did you undo your tinkering with the referer header?

There are a lot of search results for that message. I don't really see anything there that would explain a browser-specific issue. Back to business. Once you've found a tweet to retweet, the fun starts. Will you auto retweet or retweet with a comment? The first step's the same for both: Click the retweet icon at the bottom of the tweet -- you know, the one that looks like a recycle icon. A window will pop up that looks something like this:.

Now, it's time to decide whether you want to add a comment to your retweet or not. Let's take a look at what both options look like and how to do them.

An auto retweet is when you retweet without adding a comment. So if you were to skip adding a comment and simply click the retweet button on the bottom right, the resulting retweet will look like this:. The addition of retweeting with a comment has not changed how these automatic retweet work, so if you dig using them, you can expect things to work as they always have.

On the other hand, if you take advantage of the "add a comment" field, the resulting tweet will look like this:. Adding that tidbit at the comment allows my followers to gain a better understanding about why I retweeted in the first place. Note, though, that my followers are no longer able to click directly on the link that's within that original tweet. It's not blue and visibly hyperlinked anymore.

Huffington Post 's profile picture is also gone. But, rest assured, if they click anywhere in that box containing the original tweet, they'll be taken back to the original tweet itself. From there, they can click on any URL, hashtag, or username links that the original tweet contains.

Still, without the visual cue that they can click on like blue text that's clearly hyperlinked , they might be less likely to engage with that original tweet.

I expect it's going to take people a while to get familiar with this distintion, and you may notice less engagement in the meantime. I'll also be a little self-critical here: My comment copy was a bit redundant, given how the final retweet appears.

I would have done well to just put a period after the word "Boston" and let people see the marathon and the cause mentioned in the original tweet. With practice, we'll all get the hang of this slightly new type of tweet copywriting. Oh, one more thing. You can retweet with a comment as many times as you'd like, and with as many different variations of comment as you'd like.

This is hugely different from auto retweeting, where you can only retweet, un-retweet, and retweet again if you want to re-share the post. If you're retweeting someone in hopes of getting on their radar, you'll need to know how visible the various retweet options are to the person who originally sent the tweet.

Here's the lowdown. Your retweet will show up in both the original tweeter's notifications tab, but not the mentions tab. Your tweet will show up in the original tweeter's notifications tab, but not their mentions tab. It'll look like this:. Why might this be a problem? Because many people who get a lot of attention on Twitter actually rely on their mentions tab, not their notifications tab, to show them who's reached out to them specifically.

This is because the notifications tab includes all username mentions in addition to favorites, retweets of tweets they were mentioned in, and other more extraneous notifications. So if you're retweeting someone in order to attract their attention, you might want your retweet to show up in their mentions tab, you'll want to do a manual retweet instead of either an auto retweet or a retweet with comment.

I'll cover the manual retweet later on in this post. Let's take a look at another side-by-side comparison of the auto retweet versus tweet with comment functions, except this time, with an image in the original tweet. Farmers protest turns violent; Barricades broken at Noida. Farmer protester's vehicle runs over DCP's leg in Bangalore.

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And think about this. The NFL is investigating one of its teams, and out of all those emails, the only ones to be leaked involve a person who was not employed by the team under investigation. The A. About Deadspin Store. By Criss Partee.