19-09-2023, 12:57 PM
Just a friendly request back for posters at the moment to help, which is why it's only mentioned here in the feedback thread for now. But when posting links to a tweet which is itself just a link to a fuller article, we'd really appreciate it if people look to post the link to the article directly if possible, obviously still making sure to follow the forum rule around always providing some context/discussion around any link being posted. For example rather than:-
BBC Press release:-
twitter.com
This same thing would be better using the linked article from inside the tweet and shared on the forum as:-
It's been announced by BBC Press Office that the biggest broadcasters are developing a new free TV service:-
www.bbc.co.uk
This is not something we're actively enforcing anything on, however given the ongoing ambiguity over how much longer Twitter/X could last or whether they may even start breaking things like tweet embedding, whenever it's easy enough to skip that intermediate tweet which adds little and send people directly to their main article it will mean the links to the information should be safer longer term helping everyone. This of course only works on tweets which include a link to an article, usually the case with big news and press release accounts, and not anything without a link or more general social media posts.
Many thanks
BBC Press release:-
twitter.com
This same thing would be better using the linked article from inside the tweet and shared on the forum as:-
It's been announced by BBC Press Office that the biggest broadcasters are developing a new free TV service:-
www.bbc.co.uk
This is not something we're actively enforcing anything on, however given the ongoing ambiguity over how much longer Twitter/X could last or whether they may even start breaking things like tweet embedding, whenever it's easy enough to skip that intermediate tweet which adds little and send people directly to their main article it will mean the links to the information should be safer longer term helping everyone. This of course only works on tweets which include a link to an article, usually the case with big news and press release accounts, and not anything without a link or more general social media posts.
Many thanks