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IMHO Twitter is the worst media for this kind of discussion : I would have loved to read something more substantial but being limited to 140 char forces you to
by jmnicolas 10y ago
IMHO Twitter is the worst media for this kind of discussion : I would have loved to read something more substantial but being limited to 140 char forces you to omit a lot of details.
Why use something like 10 tweets where a blog post lets you have as many words as necessary. You can still be concise but 140 char is too short, it's just for people that have uninteresting things to say and Snowden is certainly not one of them (unless he starts to comment about the weather in Russia).
- abstractbeliefs 10y agoBecause twitter has a vast public reach, more so than an individuals blog. It's also really easy to use by journalists who get pre-made sound bites, which is a bonus for the sources too - they can more easily edit and shape how they are quoted. While a blog would be much better quality, quality journalism doesn't sell nearly as well as highly-polarised, bite-sized clips.
- leephillips 10y agoThe obvious solution is to use Twitter to link to your longer article. Isn't it?
- abstractbeliefs 10y agoIdeally, yes, although I can't actually imagine how any interesting discussion could come of this particular information in either medium - the "good" stuff will be on satellite communities like HN, reddit, 4chan. While a blog is a better authoring medium, it's still shit for discussion, and loses some of the media impact benefits that Snowden probably intends to leverage here.
- wepple 10y agoI think people fear the rather nasty experience of embedded webview when you click a link. It seems to be a bit of a barrier to entry.
- leephillips 10y agoWhat is that? On both TweetDeck and the normal Twitter page, when I click a link the target opens in a new page; nothing embedded.
- mschuster91 10y agoIt's on Twitter for Android, which falls back to the system webview (on my old-ish phone, IIRC Chrome v30), when you don't have Chrome installed.
- leephillips 10y agoOh yeah, I hate that. I suppose there is a good client for Twitter on Android, but I haven't found it yet.
- mschuster91 10y agoI'm writing one with pure HTML5 (Cordova) actually. Too bad it needs either a Cordova container, or a server backend as a proxy, because Twitter sends out fairly restrictive CORS headers. If you don't want to wait until it's ready, I recommend tweecha - or install Google Chrome from the Play Store, that should make Twitter automatically use the Chrome webview instead.
- jmnicolas 10y agoI know that, but Snowden is less superficial than politicians and journalists : he has convictions at least.
- vardump 10y agoRight now it seems like the only game he can play, whether or not he actually wants it.
- chatmasta 10y agoI'm fond of tweeting a screenshot of longer text, e.g. from the notes app.
- coldpie 10y agoI just barfed.
- chatmasta 10y agoAnd when you run out of resolution, write another note, take another screenshot, and post another tweet!
- CWuestefeld 10y agoI hate when people do that. Much like I hate when people looking for support send me screenshots - it's SO MUCH harder to transcribe ID#s, for example, or to record the details of the issue for future search.
- chatmasta 10y agoIf it's a question of a lesser of two evils - tweetstorms or one screenshot - which do you prefer? Consider also the fact that when people share a tweetstorm, they may even take a screenshot of it.
- sangnoir 10y ago> If it's a question of a lesser of two evils - tweetstorms or one screenshot - which do you prefer? How about a screenshot with a link to the text version for those sufficiently motivated? I know most people don't care for accessibility, but sheesh, that simple courtesy would mean the world to those who use screenreaders.
- Kristine1975 10y agoWhat about http://pastebin.com http://pastebin.com or http://www.twitlonger.com http://www.twitlonger.com (latter requires sign-in, though)?