FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE STOP POSTING LINKS TO TWEETS !!!!!

[TBA]

Paste the content of the tweet PLEASE.

Many of us cannot go to a linked tweet so we see:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

BOMBSHELL ! Something extraordinary just happened!!1 OMG!!!



Link To Tweet

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And that is it. No way to find out what happened.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. I agree

[RandomAccess]

15. BUT POST THE LINKS TOO

Some of us want to go to Twitter to see responses, to retweet, etc.

VERY IMPORTANT TO POST BOTH

[StrictlyRockers]

20. Yes, please be thorough and post both links for those who enjoy Twitter.

Twitter is becoming a big influencer of trends.

[lillypaddle]

58. +1000 nt

[Honeycombe8]

63. If you post the RIGHT LINK to it, it shows the LIVE TWEET in the post. You can click on the tweet...

and it'll take to to it in twitter.

The right link to a tweet:

You see a tweet on your main page. Click on the tweet you want to post. That single tweet blows up big on your screen...that's the only tweet you see in twitter. Copy the url in the address bar.

Paste that url in your DU post. That will then show the live tweet in your post, and readers can click on it, and it'll take the reader to that tweet in twitter.

[RandomAccess]

70. I'm not the one who needs that info

The other way to do it is to rightclick the timestamp and select copy link

[Honeycombe8]

72. Does that post the entire live tweet in the DU post? nt

[RandomAccess]

73. Yup

[tblue37]

80. BUT if you are using a mobile device, remove the word "mobile" and the period

before the word "twitter" in the link, or else you just get the link.

Example:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/983362502615552000

vs.

Link to tweet

[msongs]

2. fake news, lies, rumours, gossip, innuendo. twitter, what's not to love? nt

[SergeStorms]

28. +1,000

My feelings exactly.

[BlueJac]

35. No kidding!

[efhmc]

39. I am very involved with a real discussion of Bernie

there right now. I left DU for a while AFTER the election (and I have been here since '02) because I couldn't state my negative opinions about him here. I was so angry I vowed never to come back but have as you can see. Also, real breaking news is always there either first or simultaneously. I also can also get a much more in depth and personal response abut Texas politics and candidates. I really like tweeter, but I often look to DU for tweeter responses that I would never have seen there because it goes too fast.

[C Moon]

46. and an overabundance of "reliable sources"

[lillypaddle]

59. Lots of DUers are on twitter

I follow them, and many follow me in return. It's really not that different than posting on here. It's a quick and easy way to share information. Don't judge it unless you've tried it. I personally like when people post links to tweets, and I often retweet them or go look at the original thread.

If it's good enough for Stephen King, Adam Schiff, Rob Reiner, and a host of other Libs, it's good enough for me. Different strokes ... right?

[GeorgeHayduke]

79. The OPs point is

That those of us who find tweeting somewhere between trivial and repugnant dont care who or who does not follow others or retweet ideas.

We care to know what your ideas are without respect to format or vehicle. I think the request was to include tweeted text delivered via a text-based format, which DU is.

[lillypaddle]

83. If you go back and look

my reply was to msongs, not the OP, who said that twitter was lies, fake news, and to use your words, "trivial and repugnant." If you don't like those posts, pass them by.

[nini]

75. Not if you follow the right people

You can control that.

[hlthe2b]

3. Like a request for folks to post a sentence or two context for videos, that is not likely to happen

So, why don't we figure out why you can't see the links.

First, what browser are you using? What are your options?
Is this at work, might there may be specific blocking software?
If not, are you using specific blocking software/


Not trying to ignore your original request, just know (like my video postings example) that no matter how many times one asks, most will ignore your polite request.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. This is a good question, and what needs explaining

Since most (I'm pretty sure) people see the tweets in full, and the link itself is useful if you want to see how people replied, copied the text of a tweet and repeating it underneath seems an extra task that, for most people, just fills up the screen with duplicated text.

If we knew the circumstances under which people don't see the tweet displayed, and we knew how often it happens, we might make the extra effort and accept that the minor annoyance to others should be lived with.

[KatyMan]

14. Twitter blocked at work

So any link can't be seen. It's only 140 characters, is it so hard for OPers to cut and paste?

Also agree on links and vids without context. Not clicking on either, whether at home or at work.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Thanks - I hadn't heard that was common (nt)

[Blue_Adept]

40. It can be if they're on a tablet or a phone

It's easy to copy the link from tweets and add it to an article. Highlighting and copying the information itself? I can't do it when on those devices as it's just frustrating.

[TBA]

12. Because DU is my lunchtime activity and my employer blocks twitter.

[hlthe2b]

18. ahh... I see. Can you read them on your cell phone?

I saw some co-workers get "burned" by what they were perusing at work (just shopping stuff), so I never browse anything but work-related on their computers--just use my cell phone for anything personal.

[NewJeffCT]

22. If posting on DU is my lunchtime activity

and I only have a limited amount of time, it's not always easy to just post a link to a tweet and then copy & paste the text to a tweet as well. Phones/tablets are not always easy to copy and paste from. Maybe because I'm old, buit it's always a bit awkward for me to accurately cut and paste text from my phone.

So, it's either post just a tweet or post nothing.

But, I do try to post the text when I'm on a desktop or laptop.

[superpatriotman]

4. +1000

Irritating and skipworthy posts.

[malchickiwick]

5. And stay off your lawn too, right?

[pecosbob]

6. I dislike links without any accompanying information...try not to be lazy folks

I dislike clicking on the actual links because of the damned redirect feature on Twitter's site. I hate having to keep mashing the back button a half-dozen times to get back to DU.

[left-of-center2012]

7. CLICK ON THIS LINK !

[HuskyOffset]

24. DOWN WITH THREEKS! FORKS FOREVER! (nt)

[GusBob]

8. Kinda fed up with it myself

I have resorted to putting posters who do that routinely on ignore. I never had an ignore list before

Here's an idea: in the OP header indicate it's nothing but a link to tweet

Put LTT or something

[Cuthbert Allgood]

9. Any chance they could publish it in my local paper, too

That way I don't need to get on the intertubes to see what's up.

Seriously, it's the internet. Linking to the internet. Who'd have thunk.

[KatyMan]

16. but many people read DU at work

and Twitter is blocked in most work places. How is that hard to understand?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

19. Don't read it at work.

Or get a VPN. Or read it on your phone where you aren't filtered through your work.

[KatyMan]

26. Not sure where you work,

but no way a VPN would function in a corporate environment. What's so hard about posting the context of a tweet, article, or video? If the intent is to inform, why be cryptic? Honestly, if one can post a link to a tweet, one can also post the whole 140 characters.
As far as videos and other links without any context, I assume those posters are bots.

[PRETZEL]

10. I have the same problem but then someone here mentioned this link

https://threadreaderapp.com/

I use it all the time now.

Thanks to whomever recommended this, it's pretty good for the most part.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. I have no problem with links to tweets. I don't understand why others do.

(Just to be sure both sides of the issue get heard.)

[KatyMan]

17. Because people read DU at work and twitter is blocked

so the tweets don't show up. It's the equivalent of "call congress right fucking now!" or "I can't believe what they just said on Morning Joe!" (with no context)--lazy posting.

[Staph]

27. Amen!

It takes what, an extra seven or eight seconds to cut the text and paste it into your post. But I suppose that the time and effort involved is too much for some of the very important people here on DU.

[KatyMan]

30. Thank you! n/t

[Binkie The Clown]

50. While we're at it, how about people who post "Did you see what Rachael just said? Awesome!"

When there are a lot of DU folks who don't stay glued to their TV sets all day, or like me, don't even own a T.V.

[raven mad]

56. Yes! ⬆⬆[b]THIS⬆⬆

And have no cable.

[crazycatlady]

65. this

I don't own a TV (sold mine) and gave up cable news in 2014. Don't miss it.

[nini]

77. That really makes me crazy

[Sugarcoated]

23. I'm not big on Twitter comments in general

I pretty much pass on those threads

[Sugarcoated]

29. I believe I posted this before

but I think there should be a separate section devoted to Tweets.

[jberryhill]

31. There's a really good tweet about that

Here:

Link to tweet

[DetlefK]

32. Seconded.

[lpbk2713]

33. It's a pita when the same msg is repeated three times in the same OP.

It's redundant as hell. It's redundant as hell. It's redundant as hell.

I usually just move on.

[kag]

62. No kidding!

I was sure it was a tortilla, or maybe a panini.

[gristy]

81. Yes, drives me crazy too

Do I stop reading after the first message and risk missing what follows if it's different.
Or do I read everything and waste my time because it's a double-repeat of what was already posted.

This business that one's fellow DUers are to fix the OP's problem that his/her employer blocks twitter on company equipment is beyond the pale. Get off of DU and all other social media when you're at work! You're supposed to be working!! If you aren't working, at least don't make it so obvious...

[Blue_true]

34. Maybe you can explain how to post the content of a tweet or tweets.

I don't use Twitter or Facebook or any other social media, so I would not know how to post content (given that I would not see it to begin with).

[csziggy]

52. Copy & paste works just fine

From the Twitter page, highlight the message, CTRL-C, place cursor in DU message box, CTRL-V.

I only do things here on my computer, not on a smart phone or tablet. For those devices, I can't make any suggestions.

[erronis]

36. And clicking/viewing a twitter link on DU will record a lot of activity about you.

While I think DU is conscious of our privacy, any URL that links out to an external site has embedded tracking. And every site can see the "REFERED-BY" (sic) header which shows where the information requests is coming from.

Twitter does a pretty good job of making it difficult to capture content and paste into another page without including tracking info.

This is also true of youtube and many other eyeball harvesters. If you watch a video on DU, it is probably coming from some entity (youtube/vimeo/etc.) that knows way more about you than you thought.

Question to DU: Is this accepted and are you making $s from this? Or is it just individual users stumbling into other sites?

[Wednesdays]

48. If it's difficult to copy text from Twitter, then

Maybe hand-type a five-word summary, then?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. Yes, please post content (text / image(s)). Saves all readers time. Write for readers, please.

Boils down to convenience for ONE writer vs. convenience of 100s of readers. Assymetric
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8762614

In the General Discussion forum, most threads have at least 300 views. Many have much more, but that would include multiple views as discussions progress. But let's assume 300 readers per Original Post and per most posts at the beginning of a thread as a lower bound on the number.

Dashing off quick OP with an opaque title and a sentence or two saves the writer time. Let's say it takes 30 seconds to do that. For comparison, let's say that a more informative title and several sentences summarizing key points and making a convincing case to view the video (live or YouTube) takes two minutes, 120 seconds for a little more typing and a little more thinking.

On the other side of the equation, a reader reading the better written OP can read it and decide whether to pursue it further within say 20 seconds. But dashed-off OP can easily take 60 seconds to puzzle out what it is referring to and then to glean from sparse clues enough information to decide to whether to pursue it.

However, to dramatize the case, let's suppose the difference in time is only 6 seconds instead of 40 seconds.

If there are 300 readers for every writer, dashing off an OP saves the writer 90 seconds and costs the readers 300 x 6 = 1800 seconds or half an hour.

On the other side of the ledger, if the writer spends an extra 90 seconds she/he saves readers half an hour of time.

Now, isn't it progressive and considerate to invest a mere 90 seconds to save the community a half hour?

Multiply that out by dozens of threads and it becomes easy to see that considerate writers make the community much more efficient.

Who is the writer writing for anyway? Their own ego or the edification and enjoyment of 300 readers?

[GusBob]

44. Yes this is a discussion forum

I read it to learn other people's opinions

The assertion up thread is that we the reader have to compensate for the posters laziness, screw that

I don't know what the time frame is, but if I click on an OP and all I see is link to tweet, I'm out I don't even look at the comments

[IronLionZion]

38. Or post both

many posters do both. In some environments, twitter is blocked.

[BadGimp]

41. sorry. but no

[Miles Archer]

42. I post the link AND the content, and it's my intention to continue to do both. n/t

[PSPS]

43. Posters who do that are too lazy to do it properly. Twitter info is just useless clickbait anyway.

[Kablooie]

45. Safari on iPhone wont show tweets but..,

iOS Chrome does.

Just a heads up for any with this issue.

[TalenaGor]

47. Can we have a Tweet Forum/group and maybe a front page section of just 'top tweets of the day'

just like videos and multimedia...

it does get annoying that what seems like 50% of the front page items are just some witty tweet comeback we like or someone tweeting 'oohh something big might happen soon!'

Hate to see actual news drowned out by near meaningless tweets...

[HipChick]

49. Get with the technology....

[csziggy]

51. PLEASE if the tweet includes a link to an article - POST that link - and some information

I am very tired of opening a thread in which the OP is a link to a tweet which pretty much is just a link to an article. While copying and posting the contents of the tweet would be nice, it is frustrating; why not just go that one step farther and post the actual article link with the headline and a couple of paragraphs.

Granted some are posting from phones which adds problems for them, but is it really impossible to post the actual thing that is being tweeted about?

[vi5]

53. I want Twitter to go away permanently...

...Facebook sucks, but twitter has done way more damage to our discourse and media than any other online entity.

The fact that tweets are now passing for what is considered "news" is obscene.

[First Speaker]

54. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESSOR...

[oberliner]

55. Why can't people go to a linked tweet?

[Locrian]

76. because many people at work have blocked content

not that I *ever* would be on the internet at work....

[LanternWaste]

57. And no humming or whistling a tune unless you're prepared to tell everyone who the band is,

And no humming or whistling a tune unless you're prepared to tell everyone who the band is, and what the track listing is.

[ornotna]

60. Because of MATH!

I do understand what you're saying though. A common courtesy to all members of the board.

[Honeycombe8]

61. Usually the tweet shows in the post. They're doing the link wrong if the tweet doesn't show.

They probably don't know how to do it.

[Ms. Toad]

66. If the workplace blocks twitter,

the post doesn't show.

The request is to link to the tweet (which those who can access twitter will be able to see) and also to copy & paste the text of the tweet (so those who are twitter-deprived can see).

Personally - if your employer blocks twitter I suspect they would not take kindly to hanging out on DU either. AND I find the double posts really distracting.

[Honeycombe8]

68. I post links to tweets. You can click on the tweet & it'll take you to the original in twitter.

If a workplace blocks that, that's not the fault of the poster.

Yeah...there are some drawbacks to trying to do social media on an employer's computer. It's just a post. They can read it when they get home, or on their laptop, phone, or tablet at lunch. If this is a big deal to someone at work, I'd say they have too much time on their hands at work, and that's not good.

[Ms. Toad]

69. Just so you are aware,

The complaint is that when the workplace blocks twitter, the link you post does NOT display the tweet. (You seemed to be suggesting the problem was that the person posting the tweet just didn't know how to post it to make the tweet appear.)

[Honeycombe8]

71. I know. Workplace blocking things is a drawback to trying to do social media on employer's equipment

or through its internet.

That's not the fault of a poster.

The employee can read posts when they get home, or on their laptop, phone, or tablet at lunch, when things aren't blocked. This isn't a big deal. It's just a post.

[Denzil_DC]

67. Tweets may not display for a few reasons, and they usually have nothing to do with poster error.

Some adblockers or browser security add-ons like Ghostery may block tweets, or a corporate firewall at the viewer's work may block social media altogether, for instance.

[Denzil_DC]

64. There are at least two good reasons always to copy and paste the content of a tweet

in addition to the link to the tweet itself, apart from convenience of those who can't access Twitter at work etc.:

(1) Twitter sometimes goes down. I've seen it myself here, where for a period no tweets show up, just the "Link To Tweet", which does nothing useful if you click it while the downage lasts.

(2) People sometimes delete their tweets - perhaps if they proved controversial (often those are the ones folks really want to read, of course). If they do that, if you've copied and pasted the meat of the tweet, then we at least have a record of what it said.

It's not difficult to do: you can copy and paste, as you would any other text, within Twitter itself, or hit "Preview" on your post and copy and paste from there.

But then, those of us who do habitually go to the trouble of doing this out of consideration for other DUers and for reasons 1 and 2 may face complaints like those in reply #33 above:

It's a pita when the same msg is repeated three times in the same OP.

It's redundant as hell. It's redundant as hell. It's redundant as hell.

So we can't please all of the people all of the time!

[Locrian]

74. +1,000,000!!!! - n/t

[COLGATE4]

78. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

[gristy]

82. Tough!

I take it that you feel that everyone else has to read the same message 2 or 3 times so that you can waste your time when you're supposed to be working?