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> What kind of brain damage does one have to suffer to keep choosing Twitter for long-form writing? Particularly Foone has ADHD, if I'm not mistaking the speci
by aasasd 6y ago
> What kind of brain damage does one have to suffer to keep choosing Twitter for long-form writing?
Particularly Foone has ADHD, if I'm not mistaking the specifics. And posted about it being the reason for the choice of the choppy-form (just so it's clear I'm not spilling beans).
But frankly, Twitter is sorta alright because authors' efforts still tend to be less long-winded when paragraphs of two hundred words don't quite work. I'm really tired of verbose yada-yada from HN, so finding myself actually attracted to links to Twitter—even though it's a hot mess in most other aspects.
- detaro 6y agoAnd has explicitly stated that the piece-by-piece authoring and publishing of twitter threads works better for them.
- encom 6y agoSure. Fine. But the argument still stands that Twitter is awful for long form writing(asterisk), and I doubt everyone else who makes mile long twitter threads have ADHD. Also, ADHD is not "brain damage". (asterisk)and everything else, in my opinion edit: I'm too tired to fight hn markdown right now.
- pingiun 6y agoI mean, piece by piece authoring could still be done on a blog. Which seems better because you're able to edit it afterwards (if you want)
- mamon 6y agoThe brain damage in question is the lack of creativity and laziness. In my country it is common (e.g. among journalists) to: A. Post on Facebook first (which allows longer text) and then use Twitter to re-post content. B. Write in Word/Notepad/whatever, take a screenshot and post that. I find both methods much cleaner and easier to follow than a series of tweets.