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> "Tweets feel like conversation but are judged like writing" > "Why do tweets keep undoing people? The answer may lie in their hybrid nature. In form, the lan
by dionidium 6y ago
> "Tweets feel like conversation but are judged like writing"
> "Why do tweets keep undoing people? The answer may lie in their hybrid nature. In form, the language of social media is written—but in style, it is far more like speech."
This sounds fine as a first hypothesis, but I think it can be rejected pretty quickly, based on the fact that video and audio of casual conversations that are deemed problematic are punished just the same.