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Counter case: Twitter forces authors to be succinct and to the point, and encourages them write in a style similar to the classical newspaper article structure
by jabberwcky 6y ago
Counter case: Twitter forces authors to be succinct and to the point, and encourages them write in a style similar to the classical newspaper article structure where the most pertinent information is presented first
There is a wide variety of research published only on Twitter, precisely because the publishing process is so lightweight for writers, and every single paragraph can form the leaves of a single giant conversation. A high quality Twitter thread cannot easily be replicated using alternative media
- kevincox 6y agoYou raise a good point, but an email on a mailing list lets you reply to specific sentences/paragraphs. I guess the fairly unique value that twitter is adding here is going from the specific paragraph to see if there are any replies. Maybe webmention needs the ability to reference parts of a page, although I guess you could do that by linking to an anchor.
- alexvoda 6y agoCommenting per paragraph has also been done by Medium. I'm not saying that Medium is good, it has its own problems. But that feature can be replicated outside Twitter/Mastodon/etc.