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actually this tweet explains it a little better: http://twitter.com/xnotch/status/24100656191

You are funny. Tweets are only a line long or so, so you might as well have copied the thing (with attribution).

Directing to the original source is more authoritative and informative.

Quoting and linking back to the tweet seems like a nice compromise.

Yes. That's what I meant with attribution.