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Comment by xenoterracide | Hacker News Reader

after seeing a twitter at 11 points I'm not sure I'd agree.

I can't agree with this. What should be important is what one says, not where one happens to say it. If what one has to say can be expressed effectively in 140 characters, what's wrong with using Twitter publish it?

It's not that it's wrong, it's just that it clutters up the site. When you see 30 links on a page and that page is relatively static compared to other news sites, one post being 140 characters is a little bit silly.

Just because it's smaller? Even if it contains links?

http://scrapbook.akkartik.name/post/4424779/are-crowds-wise-...

yes to both, imho. Neither are 'news worthy' if the link it's too is news worthy then that link should be posted not the link to the twitter.

I come here for new and articles on running a business, technology, and to help others.

clicking through to a 1 sentence twitter from my rss readers is not a good use of my time.

I can see the place for something like twitter but I don't think that place is something like hacker news.

I come here for comments and things people find interesting and worth talking about. 'news worthy' is only a subset of that. There's lots of other places to find news online.

Short items can be worth talking about. Comments are usually shorter than the posts they comment on, and I frequently find comments that are more interesting than their parents.

I like the commentary sometimes. But I can't imagine having much to say about a 1 liner.

to each their own however.

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