Tweets one can't reply to? How about tweets that cannot be quoted?!?! Quote-tweets are occasionally okay but they are generally the worst aspect of this site and why I sometimes delete tweets (out-of-context quotes leading to stupidity and waste of time).
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Screenshots? If used honestly (screenshot the whole thread) that's better. Also screenshots lessen the number of people who can easily reply to the out-of-context tweet and easily reply. Also my point isn't stopping bad-faith behavior; it's building functionality to escalate it.
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As with any feature, there are lots of people who quote-tweet occasionally and in good-faith (to give credit, for example, or the amplify something worthy). Their worst use is turning what should be back-and-forth discussion into contextless, easy dunking.
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Yes, I had wanted that for a while, and that could do as well. Preserves conversation. Still have to figure out how to avoid the dueling quote-tweeting. It's bad for conversation but I bet great for engagement (dunking is engaging).https://twitter.com/KDbyProxy/status/1263212562054819844 …
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To conclude, this thread as a whole doesn't say don't ever quote tweet, but you could easily take one tweet and try to characterize it that way. Or turn it into a quote-tweeting duel. Which is the issue! Control over quote/embedding would help. Instead, we got unrepliability.
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"but functionally speaking it breaks [...] the conversation." Which is why Twitter should offer "Reply quote-tweets" so it stays in the convo. Why quote-tweet in the reply? Because esp when there are lots of replies, ppl who reply to a reply lose track of what the OT was about.
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100% agree.
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There is now a functionality that you can see who quoted tweets of others.
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This is true, though. It can rapidly splinter. Even replies to individual tweets in a thread are challenging after enough people respond.
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