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Or broken into 10, 20, or more tweets. Which, to me, is the disappointing thing about the new character limit: it does nothing to address this emerging usage p

Or broken into 10, 20, or more tweets. Which, to me, is the disappointing thing about the new character limit: it does nothing to address this emerging usage pattern, one might even say emerging form of communication, of the tweetstorm. It seems pretty clear that tweetstorms enable a certain mode of marshaling thoughts and communicating them in an off-the-cuff way that blogging services never identified or understood. And yet Twitter's product org doesn’t seem to understand it either.

microcolonel 9y ago
Maybe something intermediate could be done, but I think the tweetstorm format allows for interjections at fixed intervals, which can be helpful.
- viraptor 9y ago
  Didn't really think of this before, but yes - this is very useful and it would be a shame to lose this feature.
  - mortenjorck 9y ago
    That’s part of the missed opportunity I see: far from losing this ability, a proper tweetstorm feature should embrace it, making it easier to navigate and interact with.
    - visarga 9y ago
      > easier to navigate and interact with On the contrary, it's harder to navigate because it is intermingled with all sorts of boxes, whitespace, tags, icons and hidden menus. Everything is hair-triggered by a touch making the whole page unstable. Tweetstorms fork into secondary threads that are hard to follow, unlike HN or reddit, and use 3 screens for content that fits on half a screen.
      - aaron-lebo 9y ago
        Yep, I think Tweetstorms are right up there with colds and bad dates for negative experiences. Or, better said: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7bekig/an_interesting_rant_about_guis_as_a_programmer_i/dphdiz5/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7bekig/an_inte...
      - digi_owl 9y ago
        For some reason Twitter had decided to attempt to make their page behave like a UI rather than a forum or similar. Thus we only get a single linear reading, and it wastes space by being presented as a floating "windows" above the main page. Never mind that it is damn hard to see the full image, as no amount of clicking will actually make it fill the whole screen. Only bringing up the tweet "window" and then right clicking the image gets anywhere close.
        rainbowmverse 9y ago
        At least they stopped requiring 100% of my processor to display them like when they first switched to the floating, easy to accidentally dismiss boxes.
- cyphar 9y ago
  Sort of like how you can "interject" via quoting in email? ;)
  - theoh 9y ago
    That's, increasingly, apparently not understood by the average correspondent. Anything other than a continuous block of text preceding a quoted reply ("top posting") may cause confusion.
    - microcolonel 9y ago
      Don't worry about it, if you are ever confronted, simply explain it. It is a tradition worth defending.
    - corobo 9y ago
      I've found top-posting the type of email fixes this, no failures yet: Please see my responses inline > can we make the page do this yes np > Does the flux capacitor have enough jiggawatts to make this work? It does if we don't add anything new > etc
prawn 9y ago
With the right client support (collapsed tweetstorms and stats), readers could delve as deeply into a topic as they were interested, and writers could see how far most readers cared to delve. That's seemed like a no-brainer development in Twitter for some time to me. Entire articles could be written and released in such a format.
- digi_owl 9y ago
  This is the company that dreamed up lists, only to hide them behind multiple layers of UI rather than provide the ability to display them in columns front and center.
digi_owl 9y ago
In particular as they could just as well have lifted the inline signaling that sms has for stitching multiple messages together to form a long one. After all, the start of Twitter was as a sms relay.
cjCamel 9y ago
Twitter is experimenting with a feature that lets you compose tweetstorms [1] [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284526/twitter-experimenting-tweetstorm-feature https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284526/twitter-experime...

microcolonel 9y ago

Maybe something intermediate could be done, but I think the tweetstorm format allows for interjections at fixed intervals, which can be helpful.

viraptor 9y ago
Didn't really think of this before, but yes - this is very useful and it would be a shame to lose this feature.
- mortenjorck 9y ago
  That’s part of the missed opportunity I see: far from losing this ability, a proper tweetstorm feature should embrace it, making it easier to navigate and interact with.
  - visarga 9y ago
    > easier to navigate and interact with On the contrary, it's harder to navigate because it is intermingled with all sorts of boxes, whitespace, tags, icons and hidden menus. Everything is hair-triggered by a touch making the whole page unstable. Tweetstorms fork into secondary threads that are hard to follow, unlike HN or reddit, and use 3 screens for content that fits on half a screen.
    - aaron-lebo 9y ago
      Yep, I think Tweetstorms are right up there with colds and bad dates for negative experiences. Or, better said: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7bekig/an_interesting_rant_about_guis_as_a_programmer_i/dphdiz5/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7bekig/an_inte...
    - digi_owl 9y ago
      For some reason Twitter had decided to attempt to make their page behave like a UI rather than a forum or similar. Thus we only get a single linear reading, and it wastes space by being presented as a floating "windows" above the main page. Never mind that it is damn hard to see the full image, as no amount of clicking will actually make it fill the whole screen. Only bringing up the tweet "window" and then right clicking the image gets anywhere close.
      - rainbowmverse 9y ago
        At least they stopped requiring 100% of my processor to display them like when they first switched to the floating, easy to accidentally dismiss boxes.
cyphar 9y ago
Sort of like how you can "interject" via quoting in email? ;)
- theoh 9y ago
  That's, increasingly, apparently not understood by the average correspondent. Anything other than a continuous block of text preceding a quoted reply ("top posting") may cause confusion.
  - microcolonel 9y ago
    Don't worry about it, if you are ever confronted, simply explain it. It is a tradition worth defending.
  - corobo 9y ago
    I've found top-posting the type of email fixes this, no failures yet: Please see my responses inline > can we make the page do this yes np > Does the flux capacitor have enough jiggawatts to make this work? It does if we don't add anything new > etc

prawn 9y ago

With the right client support (collapsed tweetstorms and stats), readers could delve as deeply into a topic as they were interested, and writers could see how far most readers cared to delve. That's seemed like a no-brainer development in Twitter for some time to me. Entire articles could be written and released in such a format.

digi_owl 9y ago
This is the company that dreamed up lists, only to hide them behind multiple layers of UI rather than provide the ability to display them in columns front and center.

digi_owl 9y ago

In particular as they could just as well have lifted the inline signaling that sms has for stitching multiple messages together to form a long one. After all, the start of Twitter was as a sms relay.

cjCamel 9y ago

Twitter is experimenting with a feature that lets you compose tweetstorms [1] [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284526/twitter-experimenting-tweetstorm-feature https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284526/twitter-experime...