Stupid question-- Why, every time someone posts a tweet is it repeated in the post?

[TreasonousBastard]

[tblue37]

1. Because some people cannot see the tweets on their browser. nt

[csziggy]

2. Not stupid - but some people cannot see the tweets

Tweets may be blocked at their place of work. So posting the text of the tweet provides the message for those who cannot see the original.

[yallerdawg]

4. There's a certain irony here.

Tweets are blocked to keep the employees and staff 'on task' at work.

So they are on DU where we copy the tweets for them!

[rufus dog]

6. I was at a large corporation a few years ago roughly 5k employees on campus

Director of Infrastruction come into a Change Management meeting with an emergency request to block certain sites. It was during the World Cup and numerous employees were streaming the matches.

VP of IT sat there shaking his head yes, then asks when are you putting the change in?

1PM today was the response.

VP tells him he won't approve the change, tries to b.s. a testing reason, suggests he waits a week. Infrastructure dude says the tourney is over in a week and that defeats the purpose, VP then tells him to make the change over the weekend.

Infrastructure dude leaves pissed off, I can't resist and ask the VP, which match do you want to watch. He responds, the one that starts at 1PM today!

[KG]

3. I've been wondering about that myself

I've been wondering about that myself

[Hekate]

5. When I find myself reading the same thing 3 or 4 times in one post it really irks me...

Seriously. Once in the subject line, and at least twice in the body of the post. People! You can edit!

[rickford66]

7. My last employer didn't care if we surfed the net.

But some sites like Twitter were blocked for security reasons. You Tube was blocked but could be accessed with special permission for research.

[Denzil_DC]

8. Two reasons.

1. Some people complained they couldn't see tweets, just the link, so a number of us add a text version to our posts.

2. Tweets can be deleted, or Twitter may be unavailable at times. If that happens, at least the text version preserves what was said.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. That makes sense. There must be a better way, though.

[Denzil_DC]

10. It's a bit clunky,

especially if you're posting several tweets in a message, but you should have seen the number of complaints (some quite bitter) from Twitter-haters and those behind corporate firewalls that prompted some of us to start doing this!

If anyone can think of a better way, I'm all ears.

It's a compromise. My point (2) about the occasional non-persistence of tweets is the most compelling argument for doing it as far as I'm concerned.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. My Firefox on my home laptop is weird and doesn't display embetted Tweets.

So I'm actually glad people do that for context.

Twitter is still annoying in general but an inescapable evil at this point.

My only pet peeve is that too many people use DU just use it to repost other people's tweets without adding any additional comment of their own.

[tavernier]

12. I do not mind that but what drives me nuts is...

I do not mind that but what drives me nuts is...

^^^ This repetition^^^

[ecstatic]

13. Lol. nt

Lot. nt