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Anyone with ADHD: is there a difference between writing a hundred of lines in Twitter, and writing the same amount of text, but published in one piece? Just cur

Anyone with ADHD: is there a difference between writing a hundred of lines in Twitter, and writing the same amount of text, but published in one piece? Just curious.

rahkiin 7y ago
The tweets likely align with his thought process. I can align myself with it, I do rambling too, just not often online. However when i write a bigger text I would keep re-reading and correcting it. For a message like this that’s fine but it gets a bit harder with longer texts. I just try to cope with it though instead of giving in. The problem here for readers is probably not the tweeting but the rambling in the tweets (incoherent text)
gfosco 7y ago
Big difference. If you're tweeting stream of consciousness, it's one thought at a time, published and quickly beyond reach of editing, and you move on to the next thought. One could spend hours re-reading and editing a blog post.
floatingatoll 7y ago
Readers of a Twitter stream of thought generally realize that they’re dealing with a loosely connected series of thoughts. While individual appreciation of this style of writing varies, there’s no confusion about what’s going on. Writing in that manner in a blog post would be taken more poorly, as we generally have higher structural expectations of “a blog post” than we do of “a Twitter thread”. Simply writing one paragraph per tweet into an append-only post would not be equivalent. So the readability might improve for removing Twitter’s UI, but then the content would be evaluated as an “essay” rather than as a “stream of consciousness”.
aidenn0 7y ago
As someone with ADHD, I can say it's nearly impossible for me to read a post split up into tweets like this. Too many comments between each post. [edit] someone posted https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html elsewhere in the comments, and this is perfectly readable for me.
dwild 7y ago
As someone without ADHD, is there really a difference between an hundred of rambly lines in Twitter or an hundred rambly lines in a blog post? The only difference I see are expectations, in a blog post, I expect edited content that flow well, while on Twitter, I don't expect much.
- mrguyorama 7y ago
  I can't find half of this tweet stream because twitter starts interspersing it with replies in places. I'm missing out on content :(

Anyone with ADHD: is there a difference between writing a hundred of lines in Twitter, and writing the same amount of text, but published in one piece? Just curious.

rahkiin 7y ago

The tweets likely align with his thought process. I can align myself with it, I do rambling too, just not often online. However when i write a bigger text I would keep re-reading and correcting it. For a message like this that’s fine but it gets a bit harder with longer texts. I just try to cope with it though instead of giving in. The problem here for readers is probably not the tweeting but the rambling in the tweets (incoherent text)

gfosco 7y ago

Big difference. If you're tweeting stream of consciousness, it's one thought at a time, published and quickly beyond reach of editing, and you move on to the next thought. One could spend hours re-reading and editing a blog post.

floatingatoll 7y ago

Readers of a Twitter stream of thought generally realize that they’re dealing with a loosely connected series of thoughts. While individual appreciation of this style of writing varies, there’s no confusion about what’s going on. Writing in that manner in a blog post would be taken more poorly, as we generally have higher structural expectations of “a blog post” than we do of “a Twitter thread”. Simply writing one paragraph per tweet into an append-only post would not be equivalent. So the readability might improve for removing Twitter’s UI, but then the content would be evaluated as an “essay” rather than as a “stream of consciousness”.

aidenn0 7y ago

As someone with ADHD, I can say it's nearly impossible for me to read a post split up into tweets like this. Too many comments between each post. [edit] someone posted https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html elsewhere in the comments, and this is perfectly readable for me.

dwild 7y ago

As someone without ADHD, is there really a difference between an hundred of rambly lines in Twitter or an hundred rambly lines in a blog post? The only difference I see are expectations, in a blog post, I expect edited content that flow well, while on Twitter, I don't expect much.

mrguyorama 7y ago
I can't find half of this tweet stream because twitter starts interspersing it with replies in places. I'm missing out on content :(