With the world all a-twitter over Twitter — the latest microblogging tool — here again is an opportunity to learn new etiquette and vocabulary. If someone you are following offers a Tweet (a 140 character message) that you want to share with your followers, that is called a Re-Tweet. That is RT for short. 
Since I follow Publicity Hound Joan Stewart and often find value in her Twitter posts, the right way for me to acknowledge her as the source of my re-tweets is to indicate RT in my own Twitter post. “10 Dead or Dying PR Tactics” at https://tinyurl.com/cg23j6 RT from @publicityhound. I just know I am not the only one out there who was confused about the right way to re-tweet. Aren’t you glad I cleared that up?
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