This is not a punishment. Your comment doesn't get any grayer or dead-er. It's an incentive to deep link when possible.

If you can find a better link, we'd appreciate that. If you can't, then pay the fee, or quote the tweet. Oftentimes the important part of the linked tweet is just some other link; please post that directly.

The policy should be rescinded if twitter ever resurrects their non-javascript frontend (and pigs fly, etc).

And there is also FlipBoard which you can link to your Twitter feed.

Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an “offline” way to read that doesn’t involve endless scrolling?

Not having to see the actual tweets was the goal. The problem with connecting my Twitter feed to Flipboard e.t.c is that I'd get exposed to every careless tweet/thread/flame war. The hypothesis with PaperDelivery is that the external links that appear on my twitter feed has less frivolous content since it's not limited to 280 characters.

>There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it,

Ah I didn't know about Nuzzel - sounds useful if it can fetch just the links. According to a different comment, mailbrew.com too seems to be able to do this.