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Quote tweet
Also called: quote post, QT
A quote tweet embeds the original post inside yours and puts your text on top. It differs from a plain repost, which passes the original along untouched, and from a reply, which sits in the original thread and reaches mostly the people already there. Quoting broadcasts to your own audience.
That is what makes it the engine of commentary on X, and of pile-ons. Quoting to disagree shows your followers the thing you object to and hands the original post reach it would never have found alone.