>I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.
I think it's easy to see why it happens in this case.
- Presumably, the Twitter user @chiakokhua came across some Chinese text and used DeepL[1] website to translate to English.
- The text is very long (more than 280-char limit of Twitter) and thus it's easier to just screenshot the entire DeepL translation webpage and upload the image. Easy way to bypass the 280-char limit
- he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it; he's already a Twitter user and has an audience there with ~4000+ followers
tldr: a bunch of little factors contribute to a seemingly insane decision to post screenshots of a translation
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>I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.
I think it's easy to see why it happens in this case.
- Presumably, the Twitter user @chiakokhua came across some Chinese text and used DeepL[1] website to translate to English.
- The text is very long (more than 280-char limit of Twitter) and thus it's easier to just screenshot the entire DeepL translation webpage and upload the image. Easy way to bypass the 280-char limit
- he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it; he's already a Twitter user and has an audience there with ~4000+ followers
tldr: a bunch of little factors contribute to a seemingly insane decision to post screenshots of a translation
[1] https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#es/en/por%20quoi
Pastebin is a thing.