Tracking Your Retweets on Twitter Is No Simple Matter

I like to acknowledge people who have retweeted me. Thus several times a day I check my @Mentions on my Twitter home page to see if anyone has retweeted me.

It was an unpleasant surprise to learn that I have been missing some retweets of my tweets.

Here's how this happened:

Yael and I personally use a third-party application to retweet. This application shows our own photo rather than the photo of the person who originally tweeted. And other people also use a different retweet application than the one on Twitter itself.

These third-party application retweets are picked up in @Mentions as well as other tweets mentioning me by my Twitter username of @ZimblerMiller.

But the people retweeting me who use the Twitter website retweet function are NOT picked up in the @Mentions. Instead, I need to click on Retweets on my home page, which gets a dropdown menu and then I have to click on "Your Tweets, retweeted."



Now here's the difficult part to see who has actually retweeted a specific tweet:

Hover over the tweet, which brings up a little arrow in the top right-hand corner of the tweet, and then click on the arrow.

This opens up a panel that shows that tweet in large type. And underneath the tweet is: "Retweeted by "

What a bother! How much easier to show these retweets in the @Mentions screen?

Now my apology: To everyone whose retweets I haven't acknowledged because I didn't realize I had to check both @Mentions and Retweets/Your Tweets, retweeted.

I promise to check both in the future.

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