As digital culture reporting becomes more and more commonplace, so does the practice of collecting community reactions to news, pop culture events, or trends via Twitter. Twitter is a hotbed of content that's both useful and necessary when writing about memes, events like the Emmys or Oscars, or even public reactions to political happenings. In many cases, reporters embed tweets in articles as a means of illustrating a point. Chances are, either you or someone you know has had a tweet or other social media post included in an article at some point in their online history.
However, Twitter users aren't notified when their tweets are included in articles, which makes keeping track of your digital traces a bit difficult. However, a new technique proposed by Twitter user @READYF0RlT this weekend appears to provide at least a glimpse at where your tweets have gone. The method is incredibly simple: simply search your Twitter handle on Google and toggle over to the news tab to find articles that mention it.
—P (@READYF0RlT) April 25, 2020
While it's unclear if doing this kind of search yields comprehensive results, it definitely works: I tested it for myself and learned that one of my tweets was included in a Comicbook article about the "Thor: Love and Thunder" announcement at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. Other people on Twitter were doing the same all weekend, quoting the tweet with new revelations about where their tweets had been embedded.
—플라즈 누들 (plaz)✨ @ happy bday lesbians (@plazynoodles) April 26, 2020
— $1 billion demon child (@arahir) April 27, 2020
Others discovered that their tweets had never been embedded in a media article. (Well... not anymore.)
—Thabi Boots Thali (@thalixcx) April 27, 2020
Try out the technique for yourself and see where your tweets have ended up online.
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