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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
by 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 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.