Would you be amenable to a policy requiring "Twitter" in an OP Subject line?

[Emrys]

52. I've never seen an ad on Twitter.

I use Ghostery on Firefox. I have a Twitter account for convenience, though I never tweet. I've seen spam Tweets, which amount to ads, but they're easy to sidestep, and my simply seeing them doesn't add to Twitter's revenue.

I'm also in the habit of generally (1) indicating in the subject line if a post is Twitter-based or Twitter-heavy, and (2) extracting as as much text as possible from a Tweet, along with any images that can be isolated, and posting them after the tweet itself. And when people do (2), we get complaints from some about repetition, so there's no winning!

I think making this a forum rule would be overkill. Making it a forum rule because of quirks of the method you use to browse DU seems like it would be even more overkill! But it probably wouldn't affect my posting on DU.

Put simply, there are many OPs on DU, and especially breaking information, that would never have been promulgated without Twitter. It's just another outlet, and one that's significant enough to be quite a loss if it was "banned", which it seems like the trend this OP is aiming for.

If DU hadn't wanted people to post tweets, its architects wouldn't have added the facility to have tweets display as they do.