> I also think Twitter posts should be banned from HN for the same reasons (anything of value will be linked in a tweet, the tweet itself is bound to be void of

> I also think Twitter posts should be banned from HN for the same reasons (anything of value will be linked in a tweet, the tweet itself is bound to be void of quality.) Much like how 140 characters usually isn't enough to capture ideas properly, I think there are a lot of exceptions to this that you haven't considered: - discussion topics, a la #DevDiscuss - real-time news, e.g. when AWS goes down - off-hand thoughts/responses, e.g. when @antirez asks for Redis dev ideas - announcements that don't get press releases, e.g. when Chris Lattner left Tesla