Let's assume that while researching and writing a paper you find a Twitter conversation between domain experts that is particularly useful for you.
Given that it is not the sources that these experts list, but the spontaneous grouping of these sources for an argument that is useful, wouldn't it be dishonest to find sources that verify this information and then just cite the papers without citing the experts that led you down this line of thinking?
Is it acceptable to cite a conversation from a social media source, such as Twitter, in an academic paper?