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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.
by kanox 6y ago
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.
- cm2187 6y agoHe probably typed it in Paint!
- Koshkin 6y agoWould not be such a bad idea. You control the presentation 100%, can use any resolution, and the result can be saved compressed as a PNG.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoPeople do that on Twitter to get around the rule that you can't post anything long enough to be worth talking about. Isn't the limit still 280 characters?
- dijit 6y agoThere is twitlonger for that. But it has the unfortunate side effect of basically being a plain URL, where as images can be read on the site directly. At some point though someone’s got to understand that the platform is not conducive to sharing longer content. Tweet chains and especially images of text are an accessibility and UX nightmare. I’m actually getting more annoyed the more I think about it, because I understand why.. but it’s just so wasteful.
- DarthGhandi 6y agoAll you can do is not support it, one day people might realise that no one is paying attention and there's numerous other options than that horrendous website to say something substantial and have people listen.
- yc3po 6y agoNot only is no one paying attention to mindless tweets, it will make you feel better about yourself subconsciously.
- imtringued 6y agoTwitter isn't meant for this type of content. If you want to publish an article then do that on a blog and link to it on twitter.
- dijit 6y agoYes. But posting a link to that content will be engaged with less. It will have a smaller audience, thus, people game the system by posting images of text or tweet chains. That’s what I’m saying.
- fortran77 6y agoWe get it! You don't use or like Twitter. Maybe this isn't the discussion thread for you, then.
- jasode 6y ago>I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text. I think it's easy to see why it happens in this case. - Presumably, the Twitter user @chiakokhua came across some Chinese text and used DeepL[1] website to translate to English. - The text is very long (more than 280-char limit of Twitter) and thus it's easier to just screenshot the entire DeepL translation webpage and upload the image. Easy way to bypass the 280-char limit - he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it; he's already a Twitter user and has an audience there with ~4000+ followers tldr: a bunch of little factors contribute to a seemingly insane decision to post screenshots of a translation [1] https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#es/en/por%20quoi https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#es/en/por%20quoi
- the8472 6y ago> he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it Pastebin is a thing.
- DominikD 6y agoTwitter is crap for posting text and, frankly, if someone if providing valuable insight that's a photo of a napkin - arguing about the delivery method is just rude. If you want the plain text, OCR that image and post it somewhere.