It allows that person to see the tweet easily yes. We can argue all day about which is the appropriate metaphor: Is it like 1) insulting someone and then posting them a copy of the insult or 2) posting a hostile webpage with a link to someone's web page so if they choose they can search for the incoming URL or 3) posting a link to a livejournal post saying "this guys a fool" knowing they'll be hit by the pingback bot.
Really though, that's pretty unhelpful. It is what it is and I'm not sure trying to transfer known "good behaviour" from one context is helpful.
1) It's the correct way to provide a reference to that person on that system. On the other hand: 2) It has the effect of alerting that person to the reference.
We trade that off differently.
If someone were insulting me on twitter and not using @ I'd think "Well, why are you hiding that from me you coward" as it's a deliberate attempt to conceal.
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Is it like
1) insulting someone and then posting them a copy of the insult
or
2) posting a hostile webpage with a link to someone's web page so if they choose they can search for the incoming URL
or
3) posting a link to a livejournal post saying "this guys a fool" knowing they'll be hit by the pingback bot.
Really though, that's pretty unhelpful. It is what it is and I'm not sure trying to transfer known "good behaviour" from one context is helpful.
1) It's the correct way to provide a reference to that person on that system.
On the other hand:
2) It has the effect of alerting that person to the reference.
We trade that off differently.
If someone were insulting me on twitter and not using @ I'd think "Well, why are you hiding that from me you coward" as it's a deliberate attempt to conceal.