Cool.  I've added it to SN's github repo, [Issue #170](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/170)

That’s a good solution to that problem. Hazard of reusing their convention

k00b

Here's a tool that might be useful to some.

*Paste to Markdown*
http://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/

Lets you copy text from a web page or even a Tweet and then create the markdown for that so you can easily paste that into a post or comment reply here on SN. 

cointastical

I occasionally see comments or posts with Twitter screennames (usernames) that SN treats as an SN 

Would it be useful if SN were to have special handling if the comment or post had 

 and SN detects it and does the markdown suitable for Twitter.

This approach would work for Instagram and others too I suppose, though I don't see much of other social media usernames here on SN.

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saloon

I occasionally see comments or posts with Twitter screennames (usernames) that SN treats as an SN @nym 
 
Would it be useful if SN were to have special handling if the comment or post had `@screenname@Twitter.com`, and then treated it as if it was [@screenname](https://Twitter.com/screenname)?  

i.e., To let me add the suffix `@Twitter.com` and SN detects it and does the markdown suitable for Twitter.

This approach would work for Instagram and others too I suppose, though I don't see much of other social media usernames here on SN.