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Thanks! 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 th

Thanks! 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 6y ago
Twitter UI is a disaster.
- bonestamp2 6y ago
  Yes, although in fairness to Twitter for this particular use case... publishing something of this length is not what Twitter was meant for.
  - jawns 6y ago
    That'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 6y ago
      How 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 6y ago
        https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20 https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20
- pjc50 6y ago
  Editable 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 6y 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.
    - ardy42 6y 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 6y ago
    They could allow edits only within a short timeframe.
- qqssccfftt 6y ago
  It's perfectly fine

Thanks! 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 6y ago

Twitter UI is a disaster.

bonestamp2 6y ago
Yes, although in fairness to Twitter for this particular use case... publishing something of this length is not what Twitter was meant for.
- jawns 6y ago
  That'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 6y ago
    How 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 6y ago
      https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20 https://twitter.com/WTMMP/status/1230324073323991042?s=20
pjc50 6y ago
Editable 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 6y 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.
  - ardy42 6y 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 6y ago
  They could allow edits only within a short timeframe.
qqssccfftt 6y ago
It's perfectly fine