Twitter Link Etiquette

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Twitter Link Etiquette (IMO):

1. Give some indication of what's behind the link (e.g. what
   it's about), so people don't click through to the same
   article multiple times (especially important if the URL is
   being shortened and they can't even tell it's the same
   oddball site they've already visited twice today). Don't just
   post "Awesome" and a link; different people follow you for
   different reasons and some of them don't care about Ancient
   Greek, Rare Violins, or Deep Space Anomolies, and it doesn't
   take much for you to instead write "Awesome rare violin!"

2. Do not report old news as new news. Feel free to report old
   news because people might have missed it, but annotate that
   it's old. Typically this is stuff that's months or years old,
   but even a week-old event might not really be news if it's
   been covered elsewhere, so you still might want to call
   attention to it being a week old. Don't write in headline-ese
   with everything present tense if it happened months or years ago.

3. Avoid click-bait links; if posing a question, or a mystery,
   give the answer too. Your goal should be to help people decide
   what they want to read, not to try to drive maximal traffic
   to your link.