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BACK TO QUOTED TWEETS

taking snapshots of a tweet and posting them was a way of circumventing the blockquote conundrum with the 250 character limitation; BUT there was another limitation: CELL PHONE DATA PLANS.

there was no #Android when Twitter was first created. mobile posting wasn’t by way of an app. we posted via text messaging.

how much media you included in a mobile tweet was limited by your phone’s data plan. i certainly was, and that’s why my QT was optimized for texts… 🧵

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

REMEMBER: 2008 is when the Oembed API was published. this is what makes it possible to embed snippets of a website’s HTML ―for example, Youtube videos― on other people’s sites.

before Oembed, we would download the videos or images, keep a copy on our servers, and link back.

the problem is, you can’t do that with text. so we would copy and paste, linkback; and in the instances of needing evidence, we’d take a snapshop.

WAYBACK MACHINE was a solution to this forensics problem, btw

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

BACK TO QUOTED TWEETS

taking snapshots of a tweet and posting them was a way of circumventing the blockquote conundrum with the 250 character limitation; BUT there was another limitation: CELL PHONE DATA PLANS.

there was no #Android when Twitter was first created. mobile posting wasn’t by way of an app. we posted via text messaging.

how much media you included in a mobile tweet was limited by your phone’s data plan. i certainly was, and that’s why my QT was optimized for texts… 🧵

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

WHENEVER I POSTED A QT, i limited the text to 100 characters, always included the permalink to the source and name or handle of the writer.

AGAIN: because at their most basic function, a #quotePost is a form of bloquote and citation. you don’t just want to include the text or image of import but you also want to give ATTRIBUTION.

so, with a QT we were able to
- highlight interesting or important text
- establish a source and attribution for that text

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