Okay. I think I understand now why Twitter wanted to do something about retweets.

I’ve never gotten very many retweets in the past, so I was very surprised to see all of these in my filter for @bigboxcar mentions. Twitter seems to be doing a good job of filtering OUT the retweet button initiated retweets, so it could have been worse.

I should note, I did NOT take the photo of the BP gas station sign. I’m just a distributor of content in this case!

I blogged about this a little on June 4, including stats and observations: “Analyzing clicks and retweets of a BP gas station sign photo”