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date: 25 January 2025

retweet count 

Source:
A Dictionary of Social Media
Author(s):

Daniel Chandler,

Rod Munday

The number of times a user’s tweet is retweeted on Twitter, the total number of times the user has been retweeted by their followers, the number of retweets over a given period, or dynamic changes within a period. Retweet counts are a basic measure of message popularity in Twitter and the ratio of tweets to retweets is an ... ...

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