Comments on: Why do blogs screenshot tweets? http://www.wisdump.com/ignoring-the-hype/why-do-blogs-screenshot-tweets/ Dumping wisdom on design and the web Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sairah http://www.wisdump.com/ignoring-the-hype/why-do-blogs-screenshot-tweets/comment-page-1/#comment-353164 Sairah Tue, 25 May 2010 18:32:16 +0000 http://www.wisdump.com/?p=2331#comment-353164 Exactly, Ida! That's what I was going to point out as well, although I haven't had occasion to quote a tweet yet, as it were. I am a champion of using tools that are meant for a certain task, but I can understand the screenshotting. Yea, yea, Photoshop is out there, so it's fairly simple to alter a screenshot, even, but it's the somehow closer to the truth in this digital age than simple text. Anyone can throw up text. SOME people can edit well enough to make a screenshot a lie, and even less are inclined to do so. Exactly, Ida! That’s what I was going to point out as well, although I haven’t had occasion to quote a tweet yet, as it were. I am a champion of using tools that are meant for a certain task, but I can understand the screenshotting.

Yea, yea, Photoshop is out there, so it’s fairly simple to alter a screenshot, even, but it’s the somehow closer to the truth in this digital age than simple text. Anyone can throw up text. SOME people can edit well enough to make a screenshot a lie, and even less are inclined to do so.

]]> By: Ida http://www.wisdump.com/ignoring-the-hype/why-do-blogs-screenshot-tweets/comment-page-1/#comment-343996 Ida Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:36:58 +0000 http://www.wisdump.com/?p=2331#comment-343996 I get the point. It's a nice one too. But I think the one reason why people like to show off tweets as images is cause tweets are easily deleted and if you are writing down a tweet + linking to it and then that tweet is not there anymore it's somehow like you are not telling the truth. I get the point. It’s a nice one too.
But I think the one reason why people like to show off tweets as images is cause tweets are easily deleted and if you are writing down a tweet + linking to it and then that tweet is not there anymore it’s somehow like you are not telling the truth.

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