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by jconley 3019 days ago
Based on this study's conclusions it seems that the ability to easily retweet (or re-share on facebook) combined with social networks surfacing our engagement (e.g. JD liked this post) to our first degree network is really at the root of all of this.

I wonder how/if rumors used to spread on Twitter before retweet was a first party feature.