"A pre-flight checklist before you hit the “Tweet” button: … Contains a URL. Tweets should be..."

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:39:00 +0000

“A pre-flight checklist before you hit the “Tweet” button: … Contains a URL. Tweets should be clickable, leading to an image, video, or page describing more.”

- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s “before you tweet” checklist (via intercourse with biscuits).

Oh dear. I mean, I know Twitter is many things to many people, and for a while it’s been more about distribution than ambient intimacy, but really- should people be advising that every post should be clickable? It’s especially galling since Twitter doesn’t even have room for full URLs (or a mechanism for including them in metadata as opposed to taking up space in the post).

Perhaps if I look at that as advice for corporations, as opposed to people, it’s less vexing. (Except, of course, for the fact that I care about people, not companies. Ah well.)

notes.husk.org

"A pre-flight checklist before you hit the “Tweet” button: … Contains a URL. Tweets should be..."