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> You can't easily address bits of a blog post unless the blog uses headers

you can by just quoting the part you want to address



Yeah, but if someone reading your quote wants to verify that it's an accurate quote and not taking it out of context, they have to dig up the source article and find the text you're quoting. The blog post is also mutable, which means its contents may change after being quoted. Tweets are immutable and always have a reliable link, with built-in quoting functionality.

The one caveat is that a tweet or account can be deleted, but that's true for blogs as well so I don't view that as a mark against Twitter here.


Hah. I didn’t think about how this might be interpreted. By “address”, I meant “link to”. Hopefully that’s clearer.


I regularly use my browser plugin 'Display Anchors' to get the URL to direct people to the exact part of a page I'm referencing.




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