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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. T
by 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 agoThe 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 agoHell, 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 agoUsed 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 agoThe 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.