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- danso 9y agoHa, I just had a not-short discussion with someone who was annoyed by why his screenshots for Twitter were getting un-optimal crops -- i.e. you have to click-through to see the full screenshot, which is a bit of annoying friction if you're screenshotting a text highlight. But on Twitter, highlighting/screenshotting text is one of the most effective ways to have impact, especially when tweeting about a long article. This is partly because of Twitter's format -- you can only fit so much of an excerpt in 120 chars (+ the actual link). A screenshot of text allows you to show a full excerpt of the source, and devote the 140-characters (minus the chars for the URL to source) to making a comment. Especially helpful when the excerpt in the source takes a non-trivial amount of work to find, such as in a PDF. Example: my "Top Tweet" this month, according to Twitter's analytics tool, is a screenshot of a particular section of a spreadsheet: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/880899407939424257/ https://twitter.com/dancow/status/880899407939424257/
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoThis comic is funny, but a guide with the actual content suggested in the comic would be really a useful thing to be able to share. Explain XKCD comes through fairly well: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1863 http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1863
- Boothroid 9y agoI hate xkcd.