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The first paragraph is full of acronyms. Who is the audience of this?

saagarjha 8y ago
This is Twitter, so each character matters. Presumably the intended audience is already familiar with the acronyms (which you would be, if you have ever done a report that has required energy statistics from the agencies mentioned) or able to look them up as needed to follow along.
- imglorp 8y ago
  What a horrible place /1 to post a long /2 form article. Why do people do this, instead of tweeting a link to their blog?
  - llampx 8y ago
    You get more engagement with a series of tweets than one single tweet, would be my guess.
  - zimpenfish 8y ago
    Not everyone has a blog. Even those that do sometimes tweet out a stream recapping the blog post (Erik Loomis being the one I remember most). (This is such a bizarre complaint to me - it's like insisting that people not speak to you in real time but instead put down their arguments onto paper and present them to you.)
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    - klez 8y ago
      > This is such a bizarre complaint to me Not really, imho. There are some kind of media that are more appropriate than others for certain type of messages. For example, would you have liked this as a video or a series of pictures with just text in it? Or as an audio file?
      - zimpenfish 8y ago
        > would you have liked this as a video True, it wouldn't work as well if it was a video. > a series of pictures with just text in it? You mean like a presentation of slides? That sounds perfect (and not all that far from a tweet stream, really - small chunks of information presented in order.) > Or as an audio file? Given I've listened to podcasts with episodes on topics like this, yeah, that might also work.
    - petee 8y ago
      > it's like insisting that people not speak to you in real time but instead put down their arguments onto paper Thats not the best analogy for the complaint -- its more like insisting that instead of putting your arguments down on paper in words, you're using emoticons and forcing the reader to play charades. Though to your point, listing out your arguments is certainly a boring, bland way of conveying a topic... Its a poor medium choice; I don't choose a 10x10px image to show you the Mona Lisa...
      - zimpenfish 8y ago
        > you're using emoticons and forcing the reader to play charades. Except the tweets aren't emoticons and no-one is forcing the reader to guess anything - the authors are literally "putting [their] arguments down on paper in words", just in short paragraphs.

This is Twitter, so each character matters. Presumably the intended audience is already familiar with the acronyms (which you would be, if you have ever done a report that has required energy statistics from the agencies mentioned) or able to look them up as needed to follow along.

imglorp 8y ago
What a horrible place /1 to post a long /2 form article. Why do people do this, instead of tweeting a link to their blog?
- llampx 8y ago
  You get more engagement with a series of tweets than one single tweet, would be my guess.
- zimpenfish 8y ago
  Not everyone has a blog. Even those that do sometimes tweet out a stream recapping the blog post (Erik Loomis being the one I remember most). (This is such a bizarre complaint to me - it's like insisting that people not speak to you in real time but instead put down their arguments onto paper and present them to you.)
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - klez 8y ago
    > This is such a bizarre complaint to me Not really, imho. There are some kind of media that are more appropriate than others for certain type of messages. For example, would you have liked this as a video or a series of pictures with just text in it? Or as an audio file?
    - zimpenfish 8y ago
      > would you have liked this as a video True, it wouldn't work as well if it was a video. > a series of pictures with just text in it? You mean like a presentation of slides? That sounds perfect (and not all that far from a tweet stream, really - small chunks of information presented in order.) > Or as an audio file? Given I've listened to podcasts with episodes on topics like this, yeah, that might also work.
  - petee 8y ago
    > it's like insisting that people not speak to you in real time but instead put down their arguments onto paper Thats not the best analogy for the complaint -- its more like insisting that instead of putting your arguments down on paper in words, you're using emoticons and forcing the reader to play charades. Though to your point, listing out your arguments is certainly a boring, bland way of conveying a topic... Its a poor medium choice; I don't choose a 10x10px image to show you the Mona Lisa...
    - zimpenfish 8y ago
      > you're using emoticons and forcing the reader to play charades. Except the tweets aren't emoticons and no-one is forcing the reader to guess anything - the authors are literally "putting [their] arguments down on paper in words", just in short paragraphs.