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Confession: when I open up twitter, the thing that excites me most is when I see that patio11 has tweeted. His stuff is just an absolute must-read for me. He

Confession: when I open up twitter, the thing that excites me most is when I see that patio11 has tweeted. His stuff is just an absolute must-read for me. He uses twitter almost like a blog, which is different than most other people I follow. Some people use twitter like it's facebook, some people use it merely as a pointer to other content, some people use it to argue, some people use it to interact with major brands / corporations. I'm not sure if this is a strength or a weakness of the platform. I guess the important thing is that it's getting used.

patio11 9y ago
He uses twitter almost like a blog Yep, and I'm more than a little disappointed in myself about that. Something about the form factor of writing there and the perceived "well it doesn't have to be shippable, it's just twitter" quality bar lets me keep up a habit of writing there almost daily while I struggle "sitting down to write essays" even on a monthly basis.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Also, discoverability. Blogs have UI with mostly O(1) access to any article. Twitter and Facebook are O(n) - the older a post, the more difficult is to find it. I like your tweets too, btw.
- 0xCMP 9y ago
  I don't think this is a bad thing. In fact there probably is room in normal websites and blogs to allow you to write shorter "less quality" material along with the higher quality stuff. I'm kind of convinced it's something like Medium + Twitter: A timeline of "tweets" on the home page where you can do everything you could on twitter but on the website (possibly syndicated) where you could also announce/promote articles written. One cool thing I realized is you can repromote old articles on your website when they become relevant again with a small blub just like most people end up doing all the time on Twitter. But on your website, owned by you, etc. etc.
jasonkester 9y ago
That probably explains why patio11 is the only thing I ever read on Twitter. I have no idea whether I follow anybody. My only interaction with the site is to go to https://twitter.com/patio11 https://twitter.com/patio11 from time to time, scroll way down to the last thing I remember having read, then read up. I can't understand why they don't have a simple way to sort things in the order they were written. But then it's possible that I'm the only person who reads it this way, so perhaps it's unreasonable to expect them to build a feature for me. I try from time to time to read other people's twitters. Even tech people who are interesting here and on their blogs. It's unbearable.

patio11 9y ago

He uses twitter almost like a blog Yep, and I'm more than a little disappointed in myself about that. Something about the form factor of writing there and the perceived "well it doesn't have to be shippable, it's just twitter" quality bar lets me keep up a habit of writing there almost daily while I struggle "sitting down to write essays" even on a monthly basis.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
Also, discoverability. Blogs have UI with mostly O(1) access to any article. Twitter and Facebook are O(n) - the older a post, the more difficult is to find it. I like your tweets too, btw.
0xCMP 9y ago
I don't think this is a bad thing. In fact there probably is room in normal websites and blogs to allow you to write shorter "less quality" material along with the higher quality stuff. I'm kind of convinced it's something like Medium + Twitter: A timeline of "tweets" on the home page where you can do everything you could on twitter but on the website (possibly syndicated) where you could also announce/promote articles written. One cool thing I realized is you can repromote old articles on your website when they become relevant again with a small blub just like most people end up doing all the time on Twitter. But on your website, owned by you, etc. etc.

jasonkester 9y ago

That probably explains why patio11 is the only thing I ever read on Twitter. I have no idea whether I follow anybody. My only interaction with the site is to go to https://twitter.com/patio11 https://twitter.com/patio11 from time to time, scroll way down to the last thing I remember having read, then read up. I can't understand why they don't have a simple way to sort things in the order they were written. But then it's possible that I'm the only person who reads it this way, so perhaps it's unreasonable to expect them to build a feature for me. I try from time to time to read other people's twitters. Even tech people who are interesting here and on their blogs. It's unbearable.