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Threads are definitely a worse experience. However, I think you're overestimating the ability of one's audience to transfer to another platform. It's hard enoug
by antasvara 5y ago
Threads are definitely a worse experience. However, I think you're overestimating the ability of one's audience to transfer to another platform. It's hard enough to get someone to read something on Twitter, let alone get them to click through to another site.
Threads capitalize on the momentum of writing a good tweet, without losing a reader by making them go to another site.
- mrkramer 5y agoThat's why Twitter should've bought Medium and integrate it with Twitter. And then Twitter could've offered you to convert and transfer Twitter threads to Medium blog posts. Think of it as Facebook/Instagram interoperability. As usual Twitter was slow and without vision and then Substack emerged.
- blendergeek 5y agoTwitter did buy Vine and Periscope. I don't think their problem is just "not buying other companies".
- mrkramer 5y agoTwitter is mismanaged and lacks vision. Vine, Periscope and Medium if further developed and integrated good could've made Twitter 10 times larger just like Instagram and YouTube made Facebook and Google worth at least $100bn more.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoTo quote Mark Zuckerberg (allegedly), on Twitter: "They're like a clown car that fell into a goldmine".
- matusp 5y agoDo you really need a reader that is too lazy to click on your article? And from the reader point of view, I assume that whatever is written in twitter threads is not really that important, since the authors could not be bothered with writing in a proper and discoverable form.
- highstep 5y agois it laziness or just unwillingness to suffer the pain that comes from loading a modern day website monstrosity (cookie popup, newsletter popup, autoplay video, moving content, accidentally ad clicks)
- antasvara 5y agoIs this your personal view, or is it one that you're confident a lot of people share? I know plenty of writers on Twitter that have blogs and still write threads; this indicates that there's at least some benefit to capturing readers in that way. I love blog posts and prefer them to threads. However, it being a thread won't prevent me from reading content from intelligent people on the internet. You're missing out on some great insight by not reading something based purely on formatting. If I read someone's blog, I don't immediately assume that their Twitter threads are useless. Maybe their blog is for long-form content and the topic they want to discuss is shorter.