When did this "link to tweet" stuff start on DU?

[csziggy]

32. Better than a scren image of the tweet is to quote the text of it

Then the reader can cut & paste if they want to.

I do like having the link to the tweet - if people are going to refer to tweets - so I can go to the source. At the source I can gauge the reliability of the tweeter, see the reaction they are getting and follow links they might have posted to sources of their own.

While I don't like Twitter as a source, right now it is what many are using as a way to exchange information and views. Being able to get to the original source is a vast improvement over people quoting them without context - or worse, posting a screen shot with no source information other than a Twitter handle which is useless unless the reader has a Twitter account of their own.

Most of the tweets I've seen posted here as links are NOT to Twitler's tweets. Most are commentary or sarcasm. For instance, George Takei and John Fugelsang have both been posted here, among others.