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Citing a tweet without including its globally unique ID seems terrible. Usernames an be easily changed. Copying the entire contents of the tweet into the citing
by spullara 14y ago
Citing a tweet without including its globally unique ID seems terrible. Usernames an be easily changed. Copying the entire contents of the tweet into the citing seems odd as well.
- Osmium 14y ago> Copying the entire contents of the tweet into the citing seems odd as well. On the contrary, it builds in redundancy. One of the virtues of Twitter is that this approach is feasible because of their character limit, and it means that should anything happen to Twitter (or the internet) in the future, that anything of cultural importance* is preserved. It also allows the tweet to be read offline or in countries where Twitter might be censored or banned, but where the paper is available. Proper citation is just to enable verification if necessary. (*though admittedly this is probably a very small subset of all tweets)
- pseut 14y ago>One of the virtues of Twitter is that this approach is feasible because of their character limit Photos? Videos?