Twitter would like you to read stories before you retweet them

Twitter already retrieves the content of pages that people link to in most cases, since they summarize the content in the form of a page preview (thumbnail, title, etc).

I'd imagine that the reduction in knee-jerk retweeting, and improved understanding of the news by users when they read articles -- and perhaps answer a machine-generated question or two about them -- could lead to significant improvements in discussion quality.

Hopefully Twitter would be able to develop metrics to measure that effect, and determine how it affects long-term user experience and value (bearing in mind that short-term engagement might drop a little).

Perhaps it'd be worthwhile always allowing users to skip dialogs like this, since it's arguable they somewhat inhibit free speech (assuming tweeting a URL is deemed free speech). Whether the user was informed or not about the content they posted could be used as a quality signal about the tweet.

Wall St might dink them in the near term. But hopefully users get to benefit an overall better experience with the reduced amplification effects.