# Can we link to our own tweets or other social media? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 12, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290 "2020-01-12T02:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/61 "2020-01-15T14:18:31Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > I ain’t in no retirement community and I agree that Twitter links almost universally suck. Half the time it’s just a link to something else in the tweet, the rest of the time it’s a context free one sentence story. It’s only occasionally good when you want that sentence from the horse’s mouth. The rest of the time, it’s a lame lazy cite. I see this all the time on Fark. Cryptic headline, link to a Twitter or Instagram thing. No clue at all as to what I’m supposed to be looking for that relates to the headline. I would hope that the SDMB is more than one step above Fark. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/62 "2020-01-15T15:27:19Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > I don’t know what “Twit limbo” is, but if anyone links to something incoherent (On twitter or anywhere else), you can call them out on it and request clarification, just like you do when someone posts something long and incoherent directly on this board. It’s when the linked tweet is in a long list of nested responses and you have to puzzle out which one is the OP. And yes, I (and others) have called out such sloppiness before and got no favorable results. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/63 "2020-01-15T15:45:33Z")
Can this board’s software support lightweight embedding (like oembed)? That’s a decent compromise I think. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/64 "2020-01-15T17:28:02Z")
We are all free to judge people’s cites whether it be twitter, wikipedia, or the Giraffe board. Post your link at your own peril. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/65 "2020-01-16T21:32:41Z")
What the hell, [we need the dues.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMENQeCbxfI) I say sure. We can mock a poster’s link as easily as we can mock a post. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290/66 "2020-01-16T21:35:43Z")
Is this still an open issue? If the OP was never made and the very occasional person linked to one or their tweets for some reason, no one would have thought anything of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-link-to-our-own-tweets-or-other-social-media/846290.md?page=3)