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Sure that helps... Or they could've just written it in a sane format to begin with, and link to that on their twitter.
by worble 7y ago
Sure that helps... Or they could've just written it in a sane format to begin with, and link to that on their twitter.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoTrue, but what if that wouldn't have reached as many people and we wouldn't be having this conversation?
- eddieroger 7y agoThis conversation is about the medium, not the message, so we'd probably have been OK without this one. I agree that a Twitter thread is a pretty inefficient and painful way of reading a conversation.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoI mean the entire conversation, not just this particular subthread. Basically, what if doing something different would have impacted the reach of the discussion to the point where none of us would have heard about it. Is that better?
- liability 7y agoHuh? Loads of links on HN are not to twitter. Most of them in fact. I don't see how twitter is a prerequisite for us having the opportunity to discuss something here. The reason people post stuff to twitter is because they have an addiction to the gamification of social media like/share statistics.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoDid you sincerely think that the crux of my message was that Twitter links are a prerequisite for having the opportunity to discuss something here?
- liability 7y agoWell you did suggest that this discussion would go unhad, where it not for twitter, so yes?
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoThanks. In that case I don't think it's worth carrying on more discussion, given that you are interpreting something entirely different from what I meant.