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Counting Retweets - Or Why Is This Hard

On Measured Voice we try and count the retweets for a given tweet. The first part that makes that hard is defining what a retweet really is. Is it Twitters new offical retweets? Any tweet that contains the exact same text? The same link? Some part of the same text? Then you get into RT, via and other attributions. It gets pretty confusing pretty fast. Posted on 21 June 2010.


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