• @[email protected]
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    301 day ago

    It isn’t so much as a reply on a re-tweet, if you comment or “reply” to any tweet then the layout is the same as any other social media site and nests it under the post. Whereas for re-tweeting it is more like sharing something, like a link or an article, and your desired message into a post, just like here in lemmy your title or message is at the top and your content is under it. In this context the tweet is your content.

    I hope that made sense

    • @affiliate
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      71 day ago

      this does make sense. thank you for explaining it. i had always thought that retweet was the twitter word for reply (a reply that is also a tweet), but this makes way more sense.