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What's so wrong about it?

• richardatlarge 5y ago
  On HN, I would think that would be obvious- not fit for purpose. It comes down to the old adage: what if everyone did this?
• Igelau 5y ago
  Here's the thing 1/
  • Igelau 5y ago
    It's a pain to have to 2/
    • Igelau 5y ago
      Read across a fake thread of 3/
      • Igelau 5y ago
        Replies just to get the 4/
        • Igelau 5y ago
          Message 5/
• tiborsaas 5y ago
  It's full of distractions. Did you know that chocolate is a crystal? So when I see a thread on twitter, I can't decide if the next tweet is directly related or is it a reply. It would take less than 6 months to get to the moon by car at 60mph. Then there are stats like retweets and likes for every tweet that's totally meaningless, why can't people just push the top tweet? #furries are trending in Hungary btw. Then there's the conceptual problem about how authors interact with the platform. They must fit a paragraph into 280 characters, they can't edit a previous tweet so it's less coherent and they certainly can't give it a proper read through. Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone in Egypt in case you wondered. Unfortunately this makes Twitter threads more like a rant rather than a regular blog post. Basically, twitter.
  • SquibblesRedux 5y ago
    Now I know that chocolate is a crystal. And when looked into it further, I found out chocolate can be tempered. [1] While I am glad to know a little more about the chemistry of chocolate, I must say I am also glad I was not the one to wade through Twitter. I can say I learned it on Hacker News, instead. [1] https://www.chocolatetemperingmachines.com/pages/chemistry-behind-tempering-chocolates https://www.chocolatetemperingmachines.com/pages/chemistry-b...