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Twitter thread author here! Because, as others have said, you go where the people are, otherwise you're just howling into the void, and what's the point of doi
by garius 7y ago
Twitter thread author here!
Because, as others have said, you go where the people are, otherwise you're just howling into the void, and what's the point of doing it? If I only wrote on Medium, or for niche magazines, or newspapers, then there's a whole lot of people who would never discover interesting stuff.
So I do both, depending on when the mood takes me, or if the subject can work in a Twitter format (not everything can) or needs the full longform treatment. If it's the latter, then I stick it up on Medium.
Horses for courses and all that.
- Yizahi 7y agoThere is so much visual garbage on Twitter, please add links to a normal text if possible. Twitter is borderline unreadable and god forbid accidentally clicking anywhere on the page - everything just instantly closes and you get thrown somewhere randomly. Truly horrible UX/UI.
- garius 7y agoSure - if someone pays me to! I do this mostly for fun. So tbh the alternative here was "not tell people something interesting at all" rather than "write a longform piece about the Hospitallers". I DO have plans for the latter. Eventually. But it requires lots of research and time, and I don't have a lot of either to spare these days. That's something I would suggest that is always worth remembering, I would gently suggest. Writing isn't a free action. It takes time and mental energy/effort. I'd love it if we lived in a world where people would magically give me money to do that, just as I suspect artists and musicians would say the same, but that doesn't happen unfortunately!
- Yizahi 7y agoI didn't propose to you doing anything for free or additionally inconvenience yourself. But in case if you don't have any preference for media type and if you already have a text you want to publish for free/ads, then it would be nice to duplicate it to other more sane platform, whatever - medium, lj (dreamwidth) or anything else. It was just a suggestion. And if, hypothetically, the only concern is that normal text need more time to be prepared - you can just dump all these tweets as is as a single post and it will still be more readable than in Twitter.
- netsharc 7y agoWhatever the reason, you're a horrible person and you should be ashamed for using Twitter for an essay. Of course some others will think "Hey, that man used it effectively, I think I'll do the same!", so you've contributed to the horribleness of the Internet. Shame! Shame!
- subpixel 7y agoWhy not just tweet a link to a blog post?