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I was unaware that the term had been retired, as I still see it used in mainstream media pretty frequently - I've read it as recently as this morning [0]. Perha
by Sodman 6y ago
I was unaware that the term had been retired, as I still see it used in mainstream media pretty frequently - I've read it as recently as this morning [0]. Perhaps I stumble upon these threads sometimes when they're still being authored, but my experience has been:
-> See a tweet in my primary twitter feed
-> Click "Show this thread"
-> Now I'm in the middle of a thread, probably at the most liked tweet
-> Scroll up to the top
-> Read through each tweet scrolling down, with the author's profile picture, display name and twitter handle repeated every 100-280 characters.
-> At the bottom, if there are new tweets I usually resort to clicking on the tweet itself to load new replies, even if they're a continuation of the thread by the same author.
Not a great UX for me. Given that most of these threads end with a commenter invoking a bot like threadreader to "unroll" the thread and post it to another website, I'm certainly not alone in this.
[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/21/daily-202-it-is-probably-too-late-senate-republicans-distance-themselves-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/21/daily-202...