A Tweet that you forward to your followers is known as a Retweet. Often used to pass along news or other valuable discoveries on Twitter, Retweets always retain original attribution.

The act of sharing another user's Tweet to all of your followers by clicking on the Retweet button.

Abbreviated as RT, Retweet is used on the Twitter Web site (a free social messaging tool), to show you are tweeting content that has been posted by another user. The format is RT @username where usern [..]

abbreviated RT; sending out a tweet to your followers that was generated by another user.

When someone on Twitter sees your message and decides to re-share it with his/her followers. A “Retweet” button allows them to quickly resend the message with attribution to the original sharer's [..]

A ‘retweet’ is when you repost another user’s message on your own Twitter profile. Users are only able to retweet a post if the original user has a public Twitter profile.

 To repost a message from another Twitter user, and share it with one's own followers, the retweet function is symbolized by ""RT"" in the message.  

 – A Retweet is the process of forwarding a Twitter tweet to another user. Retweeting helps to share news and build relationships with others on Twitter. A retweet is sometimes shortened to RT.

Retweet (RT) refers to the act of sharing or reposting other users' tweets and posts on the social networking website called Twitter. In order to retweet a tweet, the user has to click the Retwee [..]

An action on tweets for users to share that tweet with their following. The action resends the message with the original users name tag.

A reposting of someone else's tweet.

A retweet is a process on Twitter when someone decides to re-share your message with new followers. It’s easy to do it quickly with a retweet button.