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> haha - I wrote the whole thing out (in tweets) in a Word doc, counted them, added numbering back in, and cut & pasted into Twitter! > It took a week to do th

> haha - I wrote the whole thing out (in tweets) in a Word doc, counted them, added numbering back in, and cut & pasted into Twitter! > It took a week to do the research and two days to write, which is basically like lightning speed in the academic world. The effort is greatly appreciated, but having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down.

dmschulman 9y ago
Agreed, pith is the whole brand of Twitter. I can make an exception for a tweet storm containing a handful of messages, but 60 is a dead horse thrice beaten. That being said, where else would this kind of content have worked where the everyreader wouldn't have given up after the third or fourth paragraph of dense medieval historic record?
- Bartweiss 9y ago
  The best argument I can see for tweetstorms is that they're stretching the upper bound of the format. A Medium post or something would be more natural for this length of text, but it also deters people with the possibility of a ten-page story. 60 tweets might be absurdly long, but at least you know it's not going be 200. So the format is dumb, but I think you're right - it offers a guarantee to readers who don't want denser pieces.
  - logfromblammo 9y ago
    Hell, might as well post it as greentext on a 'chan. It's not like any of the media sites already mentioned are all that reputable as channels for transmission of reliable facts, anyway.
  - delecti 9y ago
    Used to be that a tweet storm was okay because you knew it'd only be like 15, and not absurdly long like 60. This is definitely a slippery slope we've already slid down. I can look at the scroll bar on an article and decide if I want to continue after a couple paragraphs, I can't tell from a tweet that starts "5/" if it'll go to 8 or 60.
- daveFNbuck 9y ago
  The everyreader isn't reading all 60 tweets anyway. This would have worked best as a single tweet with a link to the full article on Medium or something. The article preview in the tweet can have a few more tweets of content and people who want to read beyond that can have the whole thing in a readable format.
Alex3917 9y ago
> having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down. The 'benefit' though is that people automatically believe whatever they read on Twitter. You could copy and paste the exact same text into a Google doc, and the number of people who believe what this guy is saying would probably fall by 90%. There's a reason why whenever there is a hoax about Justin Bieber or whoever having died, it's always Twitter where these things spread.
- kingofpandora 9y ago
  > You could copy and paste the exact same text into a Google doc, and the number of people who believe what this guy is saying would probably fall by 90%. Woman. Her name is Stephennie Mulder.
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digi_owl 9y ago
The crazy part is that Twitter took its inspiration from SMS, long after SMS had a way to automatically stich together messages into longer wholes. But Twitter never adopted said system, and are now developing an equivalent system...
Bartweiss 9y ago
Storify, Twitlonger, and the like are great, but they really shouldn't need to exist.
Jaruzel 9y ago
It's been 'unrolled' onto a single post here: https://tttthreads.com/thread/919897406031978496 https://tttthreads.com/thread/919897406031978496
kafkaesq 9y ago
Having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down. Absolutely. And casts doubt on the quality of the research behind it, as well.
- Brakenshire 9y ago
  I wouldn't say that. The format of a statement of fact backed up by a picture or a link I thought worked well.

dmschulman 9y ago

Agreed, pith is the whole brand of Twitter. I can make an exception for a tweet storm containing a handful of messages, but 60 is a dead horse thrice beaten. That being said, where else would this kind of content have worked where the everyreader wouldn't have given up after the third or fourth paragraph of dense medieval historic record?

Bartweiss 9y ago
The best argument I can see for tweetstorms is that they're stretching the upper bound of the format. A Medium post or something would be more natural for this length of text, but it also deters people with the possibility of a ten-page story. 60 tweets might be absurdly long, but at least you know it's not going be 200. So the format is dumb, but I think you're right - it offers a guarantee to readers who don't want denser pieces.
- logfromblammo 9y ago
  Hell, might as well post it as greentext on a 'chan. It's not like any of the media sites already mentioned are all that reputable as channels for transmission of reliable facts, anyway.
- delecti 9y ago
  Used to be that a tweet storm was okay because you knew it'd only be like 15, and not absurdly long like 60. This is definitely a slippery slope we've already slid down. I can look at the scroll bar on an article and decide if I want to continue after a couple paragraphs, I can't tell from a tweet that starts "5/" if it'll go to 8 or 60.
daveFNbuck 9y ago
The everyreader isn't reading all 60 tweets anyway. This would have worked best as a single tweet with a link to the full article on Medium or something. The article preview in the tweet can have a few more tweets of content and people who want to read beyond that can have the whole thing in a readable format.

Alex3917 9y ago

> having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down. The 'benefit' though is that people automatically believe whatever they read on Twitter. You could copy and paste the exact same text into a Google doc, and the number of people who believe what this guy is saying would probably fall by 90%. There's a reason why whenever there is a hoax about Justin Bieber or whoever having died, it's always Twitter where these things spread.

kingofpandora 9y ago
> You could copy and paste the exact same text into a Google doc, and the number of people who believe what this guy is saying would probably fall by 90%. Woman. Her name is Stephennie Mulder.
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digi_owl 9y ago

The crazy part is that Twitter took its inspiration from SMS, long after SMS had a way to automatically stich together messages into longer wholes. But Twitter never adopted said system, and are now developing an equivalent system...

Bartweiss 9y ago

Storify, Twitlonger, and the like are great, but they really shouldn't need to exist.

Jaruzel 9y ago

It's been 'unrolled' onto a single post here: https://tttthreads.com/thread/919897406031978496 https://tttthreads.com/thread/919897406031978496

kafkaesq 9y ago

Having to then digest the content on Twitter really lets the content down. Absolutely. And casts doubt on the quality of the research behind it, as well.

Brakenshire 9y ago
I wouldn't say that. The format of a statement of fact backed up by a picture or a link I thought worked well.