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To me what's really changed is all the screenshots. Especially with phones it is very easy to just zoom to how you want the image, then press the buttons to capture and press share.

How to attribute that?

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I think Twitter should have a QR code in the top right of each tweet. It'd make it possible to verify a screenshot of a tweet immediately and also join the "discussion".

It seems like such a no-brainer to me that I wonder if they have some good reason against it. People share tweets as screenshots all the time.

A bunch of these sites can’t make links work reliably, QR codes wouldn’t help. Twitter especially.

Not to mention artifacting after it’s been copy pasted a few times

It’s fairly easy to search for the user and text of the tweet if you want to verify a tweet that’s still live. But much of the time the original tweet has been deleted so the QR code would be a dead end too. Maybe it would be good on a third party service to screenshot and archive tweets though.

Didn't Elon kill Twitter's search feature though? He probably didn't want reporters abusing the platform to write smear pieces. Now thanks to Elon and journalists being terrible, everything gets flushed down the memory hole a week later, unless you've bookmarked it. The search feature is effectively useless now.

Nope I’ve tracked down racist/terroristic tweets that I’ve seen before to report them. You can find them if you search.

Well, I for one like to put the source URL, date accessed, and if available and applicable license of the source. I think the crux of the problem is people not /wanting/ to take tbe time to attribute, rather than being unable to.

Yes, but how to get people to engage in this manner? Realistically, they see something they want to share, then share it.

Users themselves don't benefit from attribution, and when they are aware of it they generally feel hostile that someone wants to know how they've been browsing.

People screenshot twitter specifically to break the link, because you can't click through a screenshot.

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