Ok, so this has been locked in as one of the top posts on the front page for a day or two now. I'm sure there is a good reason. Maybe it's an interesting topic,

Ok, so this has been locked in as one of the top posts on the front page for a day or two now. I'm sure there is a good reason. Maybe it's an interesting topic, or a lot of people agree with the particular message. But can we talk about Twitter "essays", as I like to call them, for a minute? As soon as I see someone chaining together 3-4-5+ (let alone) 10 tweets in a row, I immediately check out & hit the back button. That's not what Twitter is for. It has a short character limit for a reason. It's meant for SMALL, quick thoughts. Things I can scroll through quickly, consume, and move on to the next bit in my feed. Not long, drawn out opinion pieces. If you have that much to say, write a blog post about it. Write a post in a relevant sub-reddit. Send an OP-ed piece to your local newspaper for all I care. ANYTHING, buy try to make me follow your meandering, 10+ tweet long, stream of consciousness. I admit I didn't read past the second tweet in the chain. I read enough to learn this twitter 'essay' was spurred by his college droping blackboard. I remember blackboard in college. It's was pretty mediocre but served it's purpose for it's time & place. Anyway... I get the reason people do this. It's typically people with a lot of followers (like this guy, with 50 thousand) and they know this is the platform that will get the most reaction for whatever undeveloped, spur of the moment, rant they want to spew out. Which is my point. Twitter is for undeveloped, spur of the moment rants. And if it spans more than two tweets, then tweeet us a link to your blog post. Or else don't get mad when I get distracted by comments in the third tweet, and go down a rabbit hole of shit talk before I make it to the end. Well, sorry for the HN comments rant here. I got a little to angry I guess, but at least this is a place where long form comments are acceptable. Twitter is not.