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Allow opt-out of tweet object, or convert tweet to weblink

The weblink object is very useful for managing bookmarks (collections of urls). When creating a weblink with a twitter link, Capacities automatically creates a tweet object and puts the link there. I have no way to avoid the creation of this object, and the only option here is to never save a url with that domain.

While I see there can be some value in distinguishing this as its own object type to some users (or a distinct generic 'social media' object type as other users have suggested via feedback) I would like the ability to opt-out of this behavior, or be able to convert this tweet object into a weblink. The most simple solution for me would be a flag in the settings I could just turn off, ideally.

The contentiousness of the website aside, it seems odd that a url from a specific domain are treated as first class citizens alongside 'pages', 'tags', 'images', etc. - when this behavior doesn't exist any other weblink domains (example: youtube objects, wikipedia objects, which I also wouldn't want). By enforcing a separate object type, the data becomes segmented, harder to organize, and creates object types the user may not want or need. In my use case, tweets don't have any special status from any other weblinks, but the special object type forces that.

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