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I do not understand why Twitter is the medium for which to share dense information. The UI is not meant for it. Post a URL to a PDF of the slides, instead?
by eatbitseveryday 5y ago
I do not understand why Twitter is the medium for which to share dense information. The UI is not meant for it. Post a URL to a PDF of the slides, instead?
- cookguyruffles 5y agoEach slide is narrated with an option to like it or start a unique conversation or share that single slide to people who are interested in what you think is interesting. Each slide also gets its own analytics so he can see how well they individually perform (after all, he's in advertising). The medium is more than fine for what he's posting, it's an important message and Twitter is for better or worse how many important messages get around these days.
- vishnugupta 5y agoMy hypothesis is that Twitter trained their users into having short bursts of attentive focus immediately following by amplifying and expressing their impulsive reaction, through retweets/likes/replies. I doubt the vast majority of Twitter users will leave the current context of series of dopamine hits to consume a long form dense content. Content creators don’t have a choice but to modify their content to Twitter’s form factor or risk losing their audience.
- kgin 5y agoIt's true, but every click loses a ton of audience.
- dang 5y agoI understand the annoyance but please let's not repeat this in every twitterthread. People choose how they post for whatever reason. It's the content that matters. There's a site guideline about this: "Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- eatbitseveryday 5y agoSorry - you’re right. Thanks.