Replying to someone's twitter feed with a dumb joke, leaving it there just long enough for said person to read it, then deleting it to avoid embarrassment from followers.
I retweeted a friend's "...gonna be hard enough." with "that's what she said. #TWSS | #LOL" then five minutes later retweet-deleted it, cause I know his wife follows him.

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by putch22 February 4, 2010
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When a Twitter user with a high number of followers Retweets your tweet, resulting in a flood of activity.
My notifications are going crazy, this must be the retweet effect.
by MSDUK March 13, 2015
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See also: verbal reblog

When you directly quote/paraphrase a statement you've seen on Twitter.
Jacob: deviously lick my nuts
Alex: stop verbal retweeting and speak to me
by Dogg13_gutz October 28, 2021
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The excitement you get from being retweeted.
That celebrity just retweeted me. It totally gave me a retweet boner.
by Schwaah February 6, 2020
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Expression of angst demonstrated by quickly re-tweeting with a comment. Agitated series of tweets made while irritated.

The more irritating the original thought expressed; the greater probability of furious ir-retweeting.
He was so angered by the reporter's blunt observation that he ir-retweeted the reporter's comment 78 times within the next hour.
by Jules.Sheehy May 19, 2020
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