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I think there already is a rule. Something like "If it's a link to another link, just link to that one." My suspicion is they do it hoping that people who clic
by ksaj 5y ago
I think there already is a rule. Something like "If it's a link to another link, just link to that one."
My suspicion is they do it hoping that people who click it will also follow them on Twitter.
- Tomte 5y ago> My suspicion is they do it hoping that people who click it will also follow them on Twitter. In my experience tweets are almost never submitted by the tweet's author.
- ColinWright 5y agoI don't understand this ... people aren't posting links to their own tweets, they're posting links to tweets by other people that they found.
- pfarrell 5y agoIs that different from posting a link to a webpage you found?
- ColinWright 5y agoIn short, no, linking to a thing you found on Twitter is absolutely no different from posting a link to a webpage you found. That's what I'm saying. Other people seem to think that HN users are submitting links to tweets that they themselves authored, and that's generally not the case, so there seem to be a lot of misconceptions flying around.
- pfarrell 5y agoI misread your original comment and can see that now. I don’t like the slow degrade of the twitter experience for non-users and would like to see them get pushback from turning twitter into a Pinterest-like walled garden. But this isn’t the place to do it.