A list of tweets other people made about the articles subject.
These are dumb. Â Stop doing it article writers. Â Why the heck should anyone care what a random selection of twitter users had to say about the subject of the article? Â
Just stop.
And all these "articles" do is demonstrate what a terrible medium Twitter is for serious discourse.
I've seen that with some bloggers; they'd post a twitter thread instead of, or in addition to, doing a regular post. Doesn't work at all, I think; it just feels like a disjointed jumble of pat assertions piled onto one another. Like twitter itself, come to think of it.
CBC news has been doing it a lot lately
It gets clicks, which means advertising money.