While retweeting conventions have emerged, it has
not yet stabilized as a practice. Participants have
different beliefs about how retweets are “supposed” to
work and this results in varied, and often conflicting,
conventions. This is further complicated by third party
apps that use different syntax to mark retweets. In this
section, we discuss variations in how respondents
modify retweets, what content they choose to retweet,
and their motivations for doing so.