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I don't see this change as doing anything but encouraging such behaviour. It really should not be encouraged; taken too far it would break the web.

A big part of that is probably how easy it is to take a screenshot and send it to someone. If that whole process is faster and easier than me figuring out how to find a link inside this tweet which I can then send to someone, I'm going to just go the screenshot route.

To be fair, a screenshot of a tweet likely takes less space and loads much faster than an actual link to tweet.

> Instead of sharing the URL, she actually took screenshots and messaged it to him! We both found this fascinating! I keep seeing this sort of behaviour on Twitter and Facebook where people share screenshots of tweets and posts instead of the URLs.

That's quite convoluted, and makes people look retarded :P

That just goes to show that URLs are a layer of indirection that people just don't get. Screenshots/photos are easy: Im seeing something, if I send this, they see the same thing.