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A comment on the format rather than the content: it’s weird how this article includes what look like pull-quotes, but are actually embedded tweets by the author
by iainmerrick 7y ago
A comment on the format rather than the content: it’s weird how this article includes what look like pull-quotes, but are actually embedded tweets by the author saying the same stuff that’s in the article.
I’ve seen that style used when quoting other people’s tweets, but exclusively quoting yourself that way just seems strange!
- petetnt 7y agoThe dude recently compared[0] himself to MLK, Gandhi and the others for working more than 40 hours per week so somehow I am not that surprised. [0]: https://twitter.com/PenLlawen/status/1210874395734003713 https://twitter.com/PenLlawen/status/1210874395734003713
- phoe-krk 7y agoThis tends to provide more context by means of twitter comments. You can click the tweet under a particular quotation and see the discussion that happened underneath it.
- iainmerrick 7y agoWhy would I care what replies random Twitter users made? If you want to highlight a particular conversation thread, by all means, link to that (probably via one of the many Twitter thread collation apps).
- phoe-krk 7y agoSome people enjoy reading such conversations. You may simply not be one of them; that's fine.
- sings 7y agoYep this definitely comes across as a cheap way of getting more clicks/follows rather than actually being useful to the reader. This guys heretical belief seems to be that self-promotion isn’t tacky.