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A more readable version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1251936242834563073.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1251936242834563073.html
by mike_d 7y ago
A more readable version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1251936242834563073.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1251936242834563073.html
- TACIXAT 7y agoThanks! I wanted to share this with my dad and with the difficulty I had finding the "show thread" button on the Twitter mobile site I knew he would only see the first tweet then bounce.
- Kiro 7y agoTwitter UI is a disaster.
- bonestamp2 7y agoYes, although in fairness to Twitter for this particular use case... publishing something of this length is not what Twitter was meant for.
- jawns 7y agoThat's the thing, though. We see these long, essay-like Twitter threads all the time because although it may not have been built with this use case in mind, people publish where they know the eyeballs are. And if the eyeballs are on Twitter, that's where people are going to publish, irrespective of how terrible the platform is for longer writing. I know the character limit is a part of Twitter's ethos, but given that it is now a place where important information of longer character lengths is published, and given that it's a nightmare to read (or write) a thread of two dozen tweets, I really wish they'd consider giving some sort of better-suited home for this kind of content. Maybe they leave tweets at the current character length, but introduce some new product where longer stuff can be posted.
- greggman3 7y agoHow about just show the first 280 characters bump the limit to 10k or 30k. The experience won't change at all for people skimming their twitter feed. They'll still only see what look like 280 character tweets. I know there will a long list of replies of the opinion that this would kill twitter. There's no way to know except to try it and I wish they would. The 280 character limit is a net negative for society at large and I feel they already have the eyes so letting people write longer replies will only increase engagement IMO.
- qqssccfftt 7y agohttps://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20 https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20
- pjc50 7y agoEditable tweets are a problem when combined with retweets and likes: you could end up liking something you really don't endorse and being harassed for it. (I also suspect immutability simplifies their infrastructure a lot)
- nradov 7y agoThat's not a real problem. Facebook public posts can be edited, shared, and liked. No one complains about that. I frequently edit my public posts to correct typos and such.
- ardy42 7y ago> That's not a real problem. Facebook public posts can be edited, shared, and liked. No one complains about that. I frequently edit my public posts to correct typos and such. Socially, Twitter is more of a public forum than Facebook, though. That could change how people use and perceive the feature on the different platforms.
- JoBrad 7y agoThey could allow edits only within a short timeframe.
- qqssccfftt 7y agoIt's perfectly fine
- masonic 7y agostarting in Sept 2018 San Francisco suffered from Spanish Flu pandemic Was this ever corrected in the original?
- josephg 7y agoIts impossible to edit a tweet to correct a typo. The author acknowledged the typo in a reply at the bottom of the thread.
- mzs 7y agoThere's nice article courtesy UMich as well: https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.ht...