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What’s Your Magical Retweet Number?

Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

magical retweet number

Mine is 17.

Your magi­cal ret­weet number is the amount of cha­rac­ters you need to leave at the end of your tweet in order to get ret­wee­ted. It will be dif­fe­rent based on your Twit­ter name. Here’s how I came up with the for­mula for the magi­cal ret­weet number:

There are two main ways people attri­bute a tweet when retweeting:

  • RT @username:  Message
  • Mes­sage (via @username)

The longer of the two is “Mes­sage (via @username)”, so we’ll use that.

The above ret­weeet attri­bu­tion takes 8 cha­rac­ters ” (via @)” PLUS the amount of let­ters in your username.

The For­mula

8 + Cha­rac­ters in Your Twit­ter User­name = Magi­cal Ret­weet Number.

You get the idea…

So if you want to get ret­wee­ted, make sure you know your Magi­cal Ret­weet Number!

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5 Responses to “What’s Your Magical Retweet Number?”

  1. Kyle Reed says:
    January 28, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    Mine is 17 as well.
    Thanks for the info. Always good to know

    Reply
  2. Chris Carr says:
    January 28, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    Good info, thanks!

    Reply
  3. Kesha Thomas says:
    January 28, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    Cool, 19!

    Reply
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    January 29, 2010 at 9:15 pm

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  5. Michael Locke says:
    February 2, 2010 at 1:21 am

    Nice!… was totally thin­king about this not too long ago. Nice info.

    Reply

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