Don’t Tweet Pictures of Text | Adrian Roselli

Don’t Tweet Pictures of Text

December 21, 2014; One Comment

Good point @harper. pic.twitter.com/27tCMoDaGI

— Jeremy Scheuch (@jeremyscheuch) December 8, 2014

Earlier this week M.G. Siegler posted Hacking the Tweet Stream at Medium, where he describes the trend of posting images of text to do an end-run around Twitter’s character limits. His post quickly changes from descriptive to prescriptive, advocating for this behavior to bypass what he sees as a limitation of Twitter.

Christian Heilmann quickly responded to note what a bad idea this is (my words) in his post Great publishing works with the medium, not against it.

Reasons Not to Do It

Christian covered a few reasons why you shouldn’t rely on images, which I am including here from his Medium post:

  • Maybe they are blind and can not see text in an image
  • Maybe they are on a tiny device and whilst the font here is readable the text in a small JPG with artifacts is less so.
  • Maybe they are on an unreliable connection and the image hasn’t loaded yet
  • Maybe they have a mis-configured ad-blocker that is overzealous with its blocking

Let me add some more:

  • Maybe the tweet isn’t in the reader’s native language and he/she wants to translate it.
  • Maybe the text contrast is too [...]

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