Abstract

If a retweet is not an endorsement, what is it? And what is wrong with retweeting offensive or misleading tweets? What sort of responsibility do people have for their retweets? Retweets, we argue, lack any default illocutionary force. That, in turn, both points towards a particularist answer to the wrongness question and underwrites the potential appeal of a project of re-engineering the retweet such that it does have a default illocutionary force, at least for certain users.