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It’s so gauche and embarrassing to see a serious executive announcing a principled career change through Twitter. “Tweet 6/12” ... a red flag should go up somew

by mlthoughts2018 6y ago

It’s so gauche and embarrassing to see a serious executive announcing a principled career change through Twitter. “Tweet 6/12” ... a red flag should go up somewhere. Can you not buy a domain and link a short paragraph? This isn’t an issue related to Threader or visual reconstruction of tweets. Rather, how did society get to a place like this? It’s bananas.

JoshTko 6y ago
Can you elaborate why it's gauche? I'm assuming the intent is to share on the platform that has the audience you are seeing to share the message to. It's not user friendly to direct people to another channel.
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago
  Twitter lacks both document authoring features and professionalism context for anything like an announcement like this. It comes off like an out of touch person trying to stay “fresh” or “with it” shoe-horning a dry press release comment into a medium people use to laugh at cat photos. Even official Twitter accounts and journalists have the sense to link externally to more important matters. It undermines credibility to put those matters directly on Twitter. A single short tweet of that type is bad enough, but a 12 tweet thread is further forcing long discourse into a platform built to avoid it.
  - Infinitesimus 6y ago
    Strong perspective but understandable. Alternative take: Twitter is where people are and information spreads by push vs having someone discover/navigate/link to your personal site for the announcement. 12 tweets is certainly a lot though but I don't get the idea that using Twitter to share important news is gauche. Maybe that was the case when they first launched but certainly not now.
  - johannes1234321 6y ago
    They could have used Facebook if they wanted to write a longer post, but they wanted the audience from Twitter. Aside from that they are a private person, not a public good and can do whatever they like. Be it not announcing a job change at all or printing and distributing flyers or something in between.
baby 6y ago
you know your president announces anything, including firing people, over twitter right :D?
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago
  That tells you all you need to know about the credibility of Twitter - (also, what’s with the presumption of nationality, that’s not very useful).

JoshTko 6y ago

Can you elaborate why it's gauche? I'm assuming the intent is to share on the platform that has the audience you are seeing to share the message to. It's not user friendly to direct people to another channel.

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
Twitter lacks both document authoring features and professionalism context for anything like an announcement like this. It comes off like an out of touch person trying to stay “fresh” or “with it” shoe-horning a dry press release comment into a medium people use to laugh at cat photos. Even official Twitter accounts and journalists have the sense to link externally to more important matters. It undermines credibility to put those matters directly on Twitter. A single short tweet of that type is bad enough, but a 12 tweet thread is further forcing long discourse into a platform built to avoid it.
- Infinitesimus 6y ago
  Strong perspective but understandable. Alternative take: Twitter is where people are and information spreads by push vs having someone discover/navigate/link to your personal site for the announcement. 12 tweets is certainly a lot though but I don't get the idea that using Twitter to share important news is gauche. Maybe that was the case when they first launched but certainly not now.
- johannes1234321 6y ago
  They could have used Facebook if they wanted to write a longer post, but they wanted the audience from Twitter. Aside from that they are a private person, not a public good and can do whatever they like. Be it not announcing a job change at all or printing and distributing flyers or something in between.

baby 6y ago

you know your president announces anything, including firing people, over twitter right :D?

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
That tells you all you need to know about the credibility of Twitter - (also, what’s with the presumption of nationality, that’s not very useful).