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Two museums having an informative fight on Twitter
- tdy721 9y agoI don't know how to add to this thread... But it's brilliant! Will someone ping the Smithsonian? That seems like it would unite those monarchists real quick. And we all know how that would go ^.~
- hackbinary 9y agoJust because someone is from the UK doesn't make them a monarchist, nor does it make them a 'republican' (repubicanist?!) if they are from a country with a president as is its head of state.
- ninjaranter 9y agoThat's brilliant! I really wish Twitter had a better way of letting me follow the conversation between these two accounts without having to read through a few dozen tweets from other random people (and if there is one and I missed it, please let me know)
- kranner 9y agoSee this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdadniahaicebomlagekkcnlcila https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/treeverse/aahmjdad...
- tangue 9y agoNot related but : This is why twitter is failing : poor UX that a lone guy could fix with an extension.
- frik 9y agoI always wondered why Twitter has so much friction in its UI. I suppose it's on purpose, right? But what are they trying to achieve - more page views? Following conversations is so hard, one has to click around so many times.
- barrkel 9y agoBecause they've outlawed competing UIs?
- firasd 9y agoIt seems like internally they have a lot of 'product paralysis', unlike say Facebook which is happy to experiment with totally random things sometimes. That said over the last couple years things have been improving on the 'shipping new product/product changes' front for Twitter. Also to be fair when Twitter's user-facing UI seemed stagnant they were building the ad system, etc.
- jolux 9y agoI think Moments are sort of supposed to solve that?
- digi_owl 9y agoI seem to recall a service that could stitch together a tweet chain into a single image. Someone used it on a Doctorow discussion at some point i think. Problem is that since then Twitter introduced this modified retweet that break said chains, and not every client do a good job of embedding what tweet people are replying to on sending etc. On a completely different note, i see now that Twitter is trying to drum up attention for longer tweets. Something that is highly ironic given that over at SMS, where Twitter got its beginnings, stitching together multiple messages into a single long one has been a long solved "problem". Edit: Back to the question at hand i think you will get a reasonable result with this: https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 https://twitter.com/sciencemuseum/status/907934878955696130 And scroll downwards.
- brailsafe 9y agoNHM has decent footing in their open source contributions. I vote for them. Also dinosaurs n stuff.
- SSLy 9y agoThis site is doing something very weird with the scrolling.
- laumars 9y agoBoth museums are really very good - for children and adults alike. Plus they're free to visit too.
- chairmanwow 9y agoThe fact that I have to rely upon a news site with some of the worst IN YOUR FACE ad UI to embed each tweet in this conversation thread individually is pretty damning for Twitter. Why can't I organically discover / follow this on Twitter itself? It really had so much potential for being the heartbeat of the Internet, and maybe for an age it was. However, they never innovated or evolved leaving their biggest innovation to be "140 characters".
- evan_ 9y agoThis is exactly what Twitter's "moments" feature is for, I'd be surprised if it wasn't featured there at one point.
- sacheendra 9y agoHow do I access the moments feature. There is nothing on the homepage about moments. Doing a simple text search on the page turns up nothing. Doing a Google search for "twitter moments" results in the about page, again with no info on how to access the feature. This is followed by some news articles saying moments has been replaced by an "explore" tab, which I again can't find. No wonder twitter is going down the drain. :-(
- walterclifford 9y agoOn twitter.com it's the second of four items in the navbar at the top: Home, Moments, Notifications, and Messages.
- chairmanwow 9y agoThere is no such tab for me.
- walterclifford 9y agoAre you signed in? The top navbar is only present if you're signed in[1], otherwise you should see "Moments" as the top contents of Featured[2]. If you're signed in and don't see it perhaps when Moments first came out a couple years ago you installed one of the various addons to hide it and don't remember it? [1] https://imgur.com/Zp4v6sZ https://imgur.com/Zp4v6sZ [2] https://imgur.com/Y8e7RQE https://imgur.com/Y8e7RQE
- dghf 9y agoWas that a locust eating a mouse?
- firasd 9y agoProbably artificial/decorative... hence being randomly stuck on a balcony
- firasd 9y agoOkay just to help out my fellow long-suffering HN users I made a Medium account and posted these tweets there. https://medium.com/@thethreader/natural-history-museum-versus-science-museum-2f57786a37a3 https://medium.com/@thethreader/natural-history-museum-versu...
- QAPereo 9y agoI was about to give up on this, until I got to your post. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort! I especially love that nukes were laughingly dismissed with impact events.
- MichaelGG 9y agoFunny how they jump to using nukes and meteors but draw the line at DDT.
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- zakki 9y agoIn Indonesia, We have a term for "fight on twitter": Twitwar or Twitwor.
- specialist 9y agoI like. Inventing (invention of) words, phrases is one of my favorite things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet
- fit2rule 9y agoSome enterprising Brit hacker needs to turn this squabble into a real video game, STAT!
- quickthrower2 9y agoAn American is free to do it. After all GOT is American.
- fit2rule 9y agoSorry, but it wouldn't be British enough. These museums are British institutions, sir.
- wimagguc 9y agoI’m writing this from one of these museums (The Natural History Museum) after having been in the Science Museum yesterday. They are both well worth a visit and since they are next to each other and both donation-only, I definitely recommend to visit both. This Twitter thread as well, if anything, encourages the same thing: don’t choose between the two, go for both.
- kerkeslager 9y ago"Informative"?
- Angostura 9y agoYou probably learned quite a lot about the scope of their collections. (I've been to bothmany times, but didn't know SciM had a Polaris.
- magic_beans 9y agoThis was darling. I like to imagine the two Social Media Managers are dating.
- magic_beans 9y agoHN has no whimsy!
- selimthegrim 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOX4G7TmE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyOX4G7TmE0
- nojvek 9y agoJesus. Ads load before the actual content. How horribly slow can this site be.
- peterlk 9y agoI could barely read the page at all because every time I scrolled, the content disappeared. Sometimes it came back, sometimes not. Grumble grumble grumble...!