[kisielk]

As a user with an account, I also struggle with linking to tweets. The process right now is something like this:

1. See tweet in timeline, click the "expand" link in the lower left, or just some other blank spot in the tweet. 2. Hunt around until I see the non-obvious de-emphasized "details" link in light grey next to the date. 3. Click the "details" link and load the full page for the tweet. 4. Copy the link from the browser URL bar.

I don't know why they make it so hard and require me to load a whole other page and interrupt my timeline browsing flow. Annoyingly there's a "more" link on each tweet which I always end up checking anyway, and it doesn't have an option to copy a link to the tweet! You can "share via email" or "embed tweet" but neither of those gives you a useful URL you can just paste somewhere. The UI is a train wreck.

[scotth]

You can just click the date. Not obvious, I know.

[BorisMelnik]

you can also click or right click on the hour right next to the tweet which will give you a permalink to the tweet.

[kisielk]

Obvious and discoverable. I never even realized the time was a link, and I use the twitter web UI every day.

[BorisMelnik]

really good point. There was a discussion on NPR the other day about how un-intuitive Twitter was and how most normal people just don't get even what a retweet is, what a hashtag is, or the whole reply system on Twitter.

For example the fact that if you start a tweet with @ it will not show up on your feed. Stuff like that.