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> I absolutely loathe Twitter threads I love Twitter threads because if they’re done right (which is a big if, admittedly) then they’re equivalent to an annota
by md224 8y ago
> I absolutely loathe Twitter threads
I love Twitter threads because if they’re done right (which is a big if, admittedly) then they’re equivalent to an annotatable essay: each fragment of the thread can be replied to individually.
The difference between this and a traditional annotation platform is that Twitter forces the author to choose the granularity of the annotations, rather than leaving it up to the annotators. (Unfortunately, a lot of people do a bad job choosing this granularity, probably because they don’t realize this is what they’re doing.) Also, since the replies are themselves tweets, the system has a fractal form, with the annotations themselves being annotatable.
The number one rule of writing Twitter threads: do not split sentences between Tweets. Hopefully one day this rule will be widely known and followed.
- intertextuality 8y agoThe number one rule of writing twitter threads should be to never do it in the first place. Reading fragmented thoughts (and composing in terms of fragmentable thoughts) is ridiculous and then you have people replying to different parts of it, all in different chains that you have to follow down manually. If you want to write longform, just write longform. If you want annotations, use software that actually has good annotating features and history tracking, such as google docs or maybe a paid alternative. Not twitter.