[u35517]

Came here to ask the same. Twitter is utterly unreadble to me. Since they are linked to quite often, I once wanted to give them feedback that their website is pretty bad and _really_ annoying to use with a browser since they nag and nag and nag about using their app instead (just like reddit). Well, that was fruitless since they of course wanted me to have an account for that... The web is not as good nowadays unfortunately.

Can't people stop linking to Twitter? Not everyone uses twitter, and to non-users, their website sucks.

[jpindar]

So when something of interest (to someone) happens on Twitter it should what? Be ignored? Be summarized without including a link?

You are not required to read every post on HN, and you can see on the front page which ones go to sites you don't like.

[Marsymars]

> So when something of interest (to someone) happens on Twitter it should what? Be ignored? Be summarized without including a link?

Yes? For non-users, it's only marginally less bad than a Facebook page that requires a login, and people mostly don't go aronud sharing links to Facebook threads.

[nmcfarl]

I’d go with summarized, perhaps with a link. That’s what you are supposed to do if an article you want to link to has a horrible (but not link-bait) title. In this case it has horrible design, it’s no so different.

[CathedralBorrow]

What would it be OK for people to link to?

[u35517]

Things you can read with a browser, not things requiring you to run some proprietary software.

[ekc]

You can read Twitter.com in a browser.

[u35517]

Yes, but it is so crippled that they might just as well show you a big "Fuck you" instead.

(Sorry)

[skinnymuch]

I only use Twitter in a browser. I haven’t seen any issue.