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You see this now, whole paragraphs of a noteworthy book punctuating a timeline, people taking screenshots of text, or otherwise cluttering up my Twitter with te
by enginn 11y ago
You see this now, whole paragraphs of a noteworthy book punctuating a timeline, people taking screenshots of text, or otherwise cluttering up my Twitter with textual soundbites in the guise of a JPEG
a.) These are not very accessible
b.) I am too lazy to transcribe / OCR these
c.) It defeats the purpose of Twitter
d.) It would be far more handy to have big text blobs like this in a Tweet's JSON schema Something like
{ textBlob: '...book quotes galore...'}
b.) Images as text are a huge waste of resources. A lot of bandwidth could be saved by persuading tweeps to use a text-blob instead of an image (Free bandwidth people, that's what we all want is it not?!)
- dilap 11y agoBut imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words. Make the words cheap, and twitter will turn into just another prolix platform in a sea of noise.
- derefr 11y agoNot if there are tools that abstract away all the difficulty. Type 10K chars into a box; hit post; magically the first 140 show up as a text and the rest as an image.
- dilap 11y agoNo, you've got my point backwards: Absent external effects, it's easier to write a long message than write concisely. Twitter in its current form imposes an artificial cost on long messages, which encourages you to do the extra work to write something short. Remove that cost, and you'll get more lazy, long messages. That's my theory, anyway.