Social Rocket
All figures in this text come from the catalogue index, as of 01.09.2026.
One word, two products
"Retweet" has remained the umbrella term in everyday German usage, even though X has split the function into two for years. One click passes on someone else's post unchanged — a repost. The other adds your own text on top and turns it into a new, standalone post — a quote tweet. If you order "buy retweets" and expect a quote tweet, you are ordering the wrong product, and vice versa.
In the catalogues of this index, both appear as separate service classes, each with its own price structure and its own stock. That separation is exactly the topic here: where the price gap comes from, what each product does for reach, and why a panel offering both rarely treats them the same.
What happens at the push of a button and what doesn't
The difference is not cosmetic, it is mechanical. For a repost, an account only has to press a single button — one API call, repeatable as often as needed, without anything new being created. For a quote tweet with predefined text, the same account has to publish something that looks like its own thought: a new post, a new timestamp, text that fits the original post and does not read like a line from a template.
This drives two costs up at once. An account that sends out quotes en masse gets noticed faster than one that only increases counters, and is suspended more often — so a panel has to replace these accounts more quickly. And a text that fits the original post cannot be produced with the same automation as an empty click; somewhere in the supply chain there is more work behind it, whether automated or not.
Between the cheapest random line and a text with its own wording, the catalogues of this index therefore show not a small surcharge, but several orders of magnitude.
The catalogues themselves add to the confusion: they almost universally call the quote variant "Quote Retweet", a name from before the platform was renamed that has stuck to this day.
How to recognise the mix-up
In the catalogue itself, the difference is usually in the fine print, not the headline. An offer that carries "Retweets" in its name but announces its own text in the description belongs to the more expensive class, even if the name doesn't say so. Conversely, "Quote" occasionally appears in an offer that actually delivers only a silent repost, because the panel operator keeps using the old brand name.
You can reliably tell by the description, not the name. If it refers to an included or selectable text, it is a quote tweet; if it only lists a quantity without any text specification, it is a repost. When in doubt, look at the price per unit: if it sits close to the cheapest line of the class, it is almost always the silent variant.
What each product does for reach
Both products lack the same thing: the audience of the executing account. An account that sells reposts or quotes en masse has no real readers — what arrives is the counter, not the pass-along to an audience. The difference lies in what follows: a purchased repost is silent and at most noticeable in relation to replies.
A purchased quote tweet is a visible, public text under someone else's name — and an unfitting sentence is noticed faster than a mere number, precisely because it looks like an opinion of its own rather than a counter.
Why these are two separate comparisons
In this index, reposts and quotes on X form two separate classes, with two separate price comparisons. This is not an arbitrary decision by the catalogues, but a deliberate one: where a panel explicitly promises a quote, the entry belongs to the quote class; everything else to the repost class. How many panels in total are listed in this comparison is 26 — each of them makes this assignment for itself; the index does not assign it afterwards.
An offer that lists both in one package is placed under its main service.
If you only want to increase the pass-along count under your own post, a X-Retweet is the cheaper choice. If you need a visible, third-party comment on a post, you cannot avoid the more expensive Quote-Tweet class.
What this means for your order
Before ordering, it is therefore worth taking a second look at the product description, not just the name of the offer. If you are looking for reach under your own post, order a repost. If you need a third-party, visible comment on a post — for example to start a discussion — order a quote tweet and accept the higher price as part of the order.
The two price comparisons are kept separate so that this decision is made before the purchase rather than after: X-Retweets and X-Quote-Tweets, both part of the X offer in this index.