When you write “So-and so writes such-and-such in Slate”, wouldn’t it make more sense for the link to be to the Slate article rather than to someone’s tweet about the Slate article? More generally, I don’t quite understand what seems like a firm commitment to having every possible external link going to a tweet. A large fraction of the tweets are just links. To my perhaps-jaundiced eye it doesn’t seem like the Twitter discussion is generally so insightful or delightful as to make it better to link to that rather than to the actual information. Is there some sort of sponsorship deal at work or something?
When you write “So-and so writes such-and-such in Slate”, wouldn’t it make more sense for the link to be to the Slate article rather than to someone’s tweet about the Slate article? More generally, I don’t quite understand what seems like a firm commitment to having every possible external link going to a tweet. A large fraction of the tweets are just links. To my perhaps-jaundiced eye it doesn’t seem like the Twitter discussion is generally so insightful or delightful as to make it better to link to that rather than to the actual information. Is there some sort of sponsorship deal at work or something?