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How about Wordpress? What you're describing sounds to me like the standard structure of a blog with comments. Twitter is a weird sort of blog platform. It is
by aethertron 8y ago
How about Wordpress? What you're describing sounds to me like the standard structure of a blog with comments.
Twitter is a weird sort of blog platform.
It is chaotic by design: the chaos is consequence of its distinguishing features. Everyone does get their own 'mini HN', i.e. a forum. But they lack the tools to rule over that forum. It's idealistically anarchic. Everyone's expected to get along peacefully, totally in public. There's no ownership over threads.
- no_gravity 8y agoWordpress is a tool to make websites. Yes, you can put your content on a website and then link to that from Twitter. But that puts a big barrier in front of your content and the Twitter users. Visiting a website is usually a horrible experience. So people are very hesitant to do so. Click through rates from social media to websites are abysmal.
- aethertron 8y agoGood point. Users are willing to browse around Twitter (and Facebook) where the experience is consistent, tolerable. And functional enough for many kinds of content creators. They've achieved a sort of balance. User hesitation to follow links out to the open web is lamentable, but wholly understandable. Perhaps some 3rd party service with a recognisable URL could establish itself as a non-horrible, useful supplement to add extra structure to one's posts. (Although I was suggesting something to use instead of Twitter, not something to use with it.)