• 18% of retweets contain a hashtag
• 52% of retweets contain a URL
• 11% of retweets contain an encapsulated retweet (RT @user1 RT @user2 ...message..)
• 9% of retweets contain an @reply that refers to the person retweeting the post
Compared to the random sample of tweets, hashtag usage and linking are overrepresented in retweets.