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WalterSear · 2015-03-14 16:55:27+00:00

I don't think we should be rewarding people for turning 3 tweets into an article without actually adding anything to them.

ichugwindex | karma 15 | avg karma 0.38 · | 2022-02-24 05:14:50

Unless the author is famous or has a compelling point, I don't think tweets deserve to be posted as if they're news.

towndrunk | karma 570 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2017-09-01 15:04:52

Yes! What bugs me even more... a few tweets does not an article make.

djrockstar1 | karma 290 | avg karma 3.77 · | 2021-10-12 09:16:25

Really dislike this trend of taking a tweet worth of content and adding fluff to publish it as an article.

minimaxir | karma 67739 | avg karma 7.48 · | 2022-11-17 17:28:49

There's no point in linking to your own tweet unless it is noteworthy, especially when it's an uninteresting, unsubstantiated take.

RulerOf | karma 622 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2021-01-27 13:20:06+00:00

IMO the problem here is that they've taken a couple of tweets and profile links and ballooned it to a ten paragraph "summary" when a single link to the tweet in question would've served better.

When an article about a tweet doesn't bother to embed the tweet, it's probably a good indication that the article itself doesn't really add anything to the topic. Firsthand accounts from _either_ of the parties here would've been significantly more valuable to us as readers.

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peterwwillis | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2019-05-06 08:31:47

I really wish people would stop publishing useful information as tweets. It's like publishing a research addendum on fortune cookie papers. Besides it being hard to read, it's easy to lose.

erikig | karma 1782 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2019-04-24 15:33:43+00:00

I don't mind the tweet follow-up articles at all - in fact I'd hope that writers with a platform would use said platform to expound on their twitter musings more often. Twitter is perfect for taking the temperature on an issue.

That said - I felt that this article was a bit of a waste of the initial interest the tweet garnered.

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RobKohr | karma 65 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2023-09-15 11:53:20

Mentioning a tweet without quoting it is kinda annoying. It isn't like it could be that long.

laythea | karma 548 | avg karma 0.95 · | 2019-05-11 06:32:09

I'm not a fan of this essay type thing being on twitter, split into lots of little tweets.

erickhill | karma 7450 | avg karma 5.15 · | 2021-12-01 19:49:45

I'm not doubting the main thrust of the article. But it's a big pet peeve of mine when Tweets are used in the body of an article as supporting evidence and they have all of half a dozen likes/retweets. It's as if 3 or 4 people on Twitter mention something and that's collected as hard-cutting facts. /rant

peterwwillis | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2020-09-17 02:53:29+00:00

It would be great if the author had just made a blog post and tweeted it. This sort of seems like useful information, which will suck to lose when this tweet inevitably disappears and isn't updated later with new information.

Tweets make excellent momentary entertainment. Let's stop using them for anything else.

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bobwise | karma 35 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2014-02-28 20:16:14+00:00

Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet

MoronInAHurry | karma 698 | avg karma 15.17 · | 2020-01-30 19:28:24

Why is a single tweet that doesn't say anything of substance getting upvoted? What value are people getting out of this?

alexanderpease | karma 4 | avg karma 0.8 · | 2013-10-16 11:52:53

I wouldn't necessarily want every comment I write to become a tweet. Like this one, for example

kanox | karma 1597 | avg karma 3.45 · | 2020-08-15 10:47:00

That's a tweet with an image of part 3 of an article?

I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.

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donarb | karma 1882 | avg karma 2.55 · | 2018-03-18 22:20:09

I would say that conversations that need an incentive to retweet are worthless.

chankstein38 | karma 1529 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2024-05-17 18:32:01

This is, from what I understand, intended behavior. The worst is when people link the final tweet in a thread so you just get the last message and see no other context. For me, I don't see the value in people posting twitter links.

dominotw | karma 6551 | avg karma 1.27 · | 2016-05-16 16:09:08

Agreed. This is a bad decision. Its always interesting to see how language and thought process changes when limited by the amount you can say.

If you are going include a link then you should be penalized since links are expensive tax for the readers.

Twitter's beauty was that it was easy to predict your mental tax you are going to pay for reading a tweet. Now its unpredictable.

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city17 | karma 508 | avg karma 5.91 · | 2022-10-17 11:43:02

Was thinking the same. Once you exceed like 5 tweets in a thread, it becomes a small article and you would've been better off just writing an article in the first place. If you check the thread reader below you can see just how unstructured and incoherent it is compared with a simple article.