would you recommend this to a friend”, but are also guaranteed to yield a truthful answer, because retweeting is an act of recommendation to friends, for which the user is then held accountable.
Note that even in this relatively straightforward case, the meaning of retweets can become conflated, from “I would recommend this to a friend” to “I agree with this”. I sometimes have to be careful about what I retweet because of this confusion, and things that I would otherwise recommend people read I hesitate to retweet because I don’t want people thinking I agree.
Note that even in this relatively straightforward case, the meaning of retweets can become conflated, from “I would recommend this to a friend” to “I agree with this”. I sometimes have to be careful about what I retweet because of this confusion, and things that I would otherwise recommend people read I hesitate to retweet because I don’t want people thinking I agree.