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why do people write whole blogposts on twitter?
by thecatspaw 8y ago
why do people write whole blogposts on twitter?
- Brotkrumen 8y agoYou go where your customers are, or audience iin this case
- pdkl95 8y agoReaching a large audience can be useful, but it might not be worth the cost of using an established medium. From the forward - which was probably written by Marshall McLuhan - to Edmund Snow Carpenter's book "They became what they beheld": > If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. > Utilizing existing channels can wipe out a statement. There is a widely accepted misconception that media merely serve as neutral packages for the dissemination of raw facts. Photographers once thought that by getting their photographs published in Life, they wo9uld thereby reach large audiences. Gradually they discovered that the only message that came through was Life magazine itself and that their pictures had become but bits & pieces of that message. Unwittingly they contributed to a message far removed from the one they intended. Twitter may actually be a useful tool for reaching large audiences for some messages, but "the medium is the message" and using Twitter as your medium clearly involves diluting your message with the "Twitter style".
- mocae 8y agoMaybe because they don't have a blog and/or all their followers are on twitter?
- inopinatus 8y agoThe format is kinda a cross between Twitter and Medium, so in my household it is (perhaps unfairly) named Tedium.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI bet Tedium is one of those names that has yet to be taken for a social media startup.
- AlphaWeaver 8y agoTedium is actually the name of a fairly popular mailing list [0] about weird backstories to phenomena in everyday life. [0]: https://tedium.co/ https://tedium.co/