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by ljm 1533 days ago
The unstyled blockquote is probably enough, without pulling down the JS to embed twitter's marketing, tracking, and whatever else they might be observing.

Is it necessary for a quoted tweet to look exactly like it came from Twitter when the text and a link serves an identical purpose?

That said, if someone wants to delete a tweet or otherwise correct the record, are you prepared to issue a correction of your own when quoting a tweet? The internet is particularly unforgiving when it comes to this.