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Many of the responses here are missing the real reason that Twitter is preferred: time. The amount of reading to do is vast, the number of minutes in the day
by jordanpg 5y ago
Many of the responses here are missing the real reason that Twitter is preferred: time. The amount of reading to do is vast, the number of minutes in the day are few.
We can bemoan the extinction of blogs, long form journalism, etc. all day long but there is an information density problem that is going nowhere.
Along the same lines, a lot of written material is a lot longer than it needs to be. Those insisting on prose might ponder the old maxim, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
Maybe there is a comfortable medium somewhere between Twitter and prose. I enjoy long form writing sometimes, but I much more often don't have the time to read it.
- hiepph 5y agoI think this is a critical problem of the digital world. We tried to evolve everything to get time for reading (i.e. to be productive) but instead we are scared by the vast amount of information and consume shorter and shorter one. Minutes of reading articles are now reduced to half a minute, even seconds. The same thing is happening to video (looking at you Youtube Shorts, TikTok). I don't say I don't like it but they are on the way of super fast rising that we spend most of our time on them and complain we don't have time to read long quality content.