Retweeting or reposting a message is considered as an easily available information
diffusion mechanism provided by Twitter or any other social network sites. By finding out why
a user retweets a tweet, or predicting whether a tweet will be retweeted by a user, we can
not only understand user's behavior or interest better, but also understand how information
is diffused on the online social network. In this survey paper, we have explored various
research works related to retweet prediction and retweeting behavior analysis, investigated …