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I have no idea how to read this Twitter thread. It's just overflowing with suggested content that is not related to the post. Broken UX.

cwyers 7y ago
I have had that happening to me recently as well. The link that's supposed to expand the thread doesn't work for me either. But weirdly, reloading the page did.
- tasuki 7y ago
  > The link that's supposed to expand the thread doesn't work for me either. Same here. Reloading is of no help, though logging out helps. Twitter has become near unusable.
  - cwyers 7y ago
    Sometimes when reloading doesn't work, I select the URL in the bar and hit enter, which does a... hard reload, I guess? And that works. At any rate, yeah, it's so broken.
- worldsayshi 7y ago
  > reloading the page did. Yup, that worked. :/
CaptArmchair 7y ago
Twitter was conceived as a 'micro-blogging' platform. Each Tweet being an independent semantic entity on itself with a 140 - expanded to 280 - character limit. The entire point was to post succinct status updates. Naturally, people tend to use tools in ways that go beyond the original intended design purpose. Creating entire threads using @ mentions is one of those behaviors. Proper UX, readability and findability are opportunity costs happily paid in return for tapping directly into a large audience in real time. Since Twitter is an ad company, it won't fix this because there's zero incentive to do so. On the contrary. If more people are willing to use Twitter and stay on Twitter, the better. Arguably, Twitter offers the least number of affordances to accommodate long form writing and reading. But here we are. Medium valiantly tried to offer an answer - proper UX combined with the directness of Twitter - but failed since they were fighting an uphill battle from the get go because their business model consisted of competing with an incumbent using the same tactic: building another content silo as a private venture.
stjohnswarts 7y ago
Twitter wasn't meant for the way the author is using it, thus it sucks for what he's doing. it's good enough for him and since you can't bring your audience to a new platform with you twitterers just live with it.

cwyers 7y ago

I have had that happening to me recently as well. The link that's supposed to expand the thread doesn't work for me either. But weirdly, reloading the page did.

tasuki 7y ago
> The link that's supposed to expand the thread doesn't work for me either. Same here. Reloading is of no help, though logging out helps. Twitter has become near unusable.
- cwyers 7y ago
  Sometimes when reloading doesn't work, I select the URL in the bar and hit enter, which does a... hard reload, I guess? And that works. At any rate, yeah, it's so broken.
worldsayshi 7y ago
> reloading the page did. Yup, that worked. :/

CaptArmchair 7y ago

Twitter was conceived as a 'micro-blogging' platform. Each Tweet being an independent semantic entity on itself with a 140 - expanded to 280 - character limit. The entire point was to post succinct status updates. Naturally, people tend to use tools in ways that go beyond the original intended design purpose. Creating entire threads using @ mentions is one of those behaviors. Proper UX, readability and findability are opportunity costs happily paid in return for tapping directly into a large audience in real time. Since Twitter is an ad company, it won't fix this because there's zero incentive to do so. On the contrary. If more people are willing to use Twitter and stay on Twitter, the better. Arguably, Twitter offers the least number of affordances to accommodate long form writing and reading. But here we are. Medium valiantly tried to offer an answer - proper UX combined with the directness of Twitter - but failed since they were fighting an uphill battle from the get go because their business model consisted of competing with an incumbent using the same tactic: building another content silo as a private venture.

stjohnswarts 7y ago

Twitter wasn't meant for the way the author is using it, thus it sucks for what he's doing. it's good enough for him and since you can't bring your audience to a new platform with you twitterers just live with it.