Why I never retweet Mashable

Fully agree on your post. However I also think that it also depends on the type of followers you have. For example, my followers consists of both groups of people (tech and non-tech) literate in which content from Mashable / Engadget / etc can be beneficial to the latter group. In the end, I believe it’s about balance and not spamming retweets 🙂

Daniel, the worst are people that put mashable or techcrunch on Twitterfeed without using the @mention in the Tweet. How annoying is that?! I thank Kristie from Kikolani for explaining how to spot Twitterfeed and it’s easy to see in Hootsuite. It’s a shame you can’t see Twitterfeed with the New Twitter.

But since so many have Twitterfeed set-up I see 5 or 6 tweets in a row with the same subject so I just ignore them because I know they come from mashable.

If I want to read mashable I know where to find it, what I would rather see is people tweeting their own quality blog posts or at least include the @mention from what ever the source is. Thanks Daniel!

Looks like I’ve different concept here (comparing the article and comments).

Why I retweet Mashable/TechCrunch? It’s a way of bookmarking the link to visit/revisit! It’s quicker to note down possibly interesting news/article. Trend might be went different direction now-a-days otherwise Isn’t more reweet you see that means the more interesting the news is?

It’s funny that people just re-tweet without any intention to read it or like it either- marketing and getting attention eat up whole idea of re-tweeting it seems (and probably works well). For me, I try to re-tweet those tweets I think useful or I would like to take a visit, same time may be my followers find it interesting, too. If they seen it before, that’s Ok- if they missed- it helps.

Oh- I don’t read every or most article of “celebrities” like Mashable- if they catch my eyes- they are lucky to find a reader. 😉

Yes, this is a valid discussion. Retweeting the tweets from somebody whom everybody else has already followed is increasing the noise only. But I don’t think about unfollowing them. Its Okay you don’t retweet those messages as it is obvious lot others will already, but who knows when something really enjoying content flows down!

10 or more tweets of same message, I think, is due to automatic retweeting via the services like hootsuite. People tend to believe that the tweets from these great sources must be interesting to the followers as well so they automatized the tweet. Thus it flows down to all followers even without the notice of who directed that tweet. I don’t like this.

I agree with you, there is not much value to RT from those people who already have all of the tweeter people as their followers.

Great post, and a big risk. I suspect that many would not agree with you. But you make a valid point.
I don’ think that one should stop re-tweeting Mashable because they are famous, but because there are so many others who are doing it.

Now think for a moment here, if for some miracle reason your post here is taken seriously by the millions of Mashable fans, and they stop RT’ing their posts, where would that leave Mashable.

But the point I get, is to be circumspect about who and what you RT,

I agree with you 100%.
This is also why I don’t follow big content publishers directly on Twitter. I trust my following (social filter) to RT the best pieces anyway. And you are right – I see every Mashable story at least 10 times through RTs already.
Tom