section_path: Interactions/Retweets
section_name: Retweets
paragraph_text: Retweets
  
  In November 2009, Twitter began rolling out the ability to 'retweet' a tweet. Prior to this, people would write "RT @username" before quoting the original tweet. Some people limited their 140 character limit down further, so that other people could always fit their entire tweet in a proto-retweet. In 2023, with the rebranding of Twitter to X, "retweets" were quietly renamed to "reposts"; however, "retweets" remained the most commonly used term on the site.