My twitter-fu is weak
Why is it customary for a blog to grab a screen capture of a twitter post instead of just linking and quoting? Just curious.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 am
Don’t really have a good answer on that one. It is linked though. If you click on the image, you go to the original tweet.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
I’ve seen others do it too. Just found it odd.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
Just a guess, but maybe twitter archives expire pretty quickly, so this is the only way to keep a permanent record?
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Hmmm.
Embarassing things have a tendency to go down the memory hole.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I believe that twitter gives you the ability to delete past tweets, which might be a reason that people do screen grabs.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Deletion. For example, one time Meghan McCain tweeted that the Constitution said all men are created equal(that’s the Declaration of Independence.) I called her out on it, and she deleted the tweet. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one giving her a hard time about that. So, that’s why the screen capture.