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as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them un

as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them uninterrupted in chronological order? Or does Twitter provide some way to write a "Medium.com style" article and have it broken into tweets? Am I old or something? I'm not even 30 yet and I cannot wrap my brain around this format or what Twitter is supposed to provide.

senectus1 5y ago
there are tools that turn long tweets into multiple tweets. such as : https://www.twitlonger.com/ https://www.twitlonger.com/ actually thats not a great example sorry. but FYI it looks like he was using this service: https://hypefury.com/ https://hypefury.com/
jes5199 5y ago
the twitter UI lets you type a bunch of tweets in a row. You get used to it other formats of text start to feel overwrought, unnecessarily verbose, full of meaningless filler
- romwell 5y ago
  Other formats? You just described this post!
honkdaddy 5y ago
I think it's pretty obvious given how popular these types of threads are that Twitter does provide a mean to present them in chronological order. It's less about the format, and more about discoverability.
jazzyjackson 5y ago
IIRC (got banned from twitter for 'bot like activity' first time I replied to Elon Musk): Pressing "Enter" sends the tweet, so it's pretty natural to just keep typing more posts.
brailsafe 5y ago
Same. It's kind of hard to believe people are still on what should be a dead platform, nevermind that people have made it even worse with long form threads like this.
guerrilla 5y ago
No, the person is replying to themselves. That's how you create threads. There is a UI mechanic to make it trivial as well but it's only been around for a couple of years. It's the same as how threaded email and news clients work but there's one small difference: the display will prioritize the originator over other people who are also replying.

senectus1 5y ago

there are tools that turn long tweets into multiple tweets. such as : https://www.twitlonger.com/ https://www.twitlonger.com/ actually thats not a great example sorry. but FYI it looks like he was using this service: https://hypefury.com/ https://hypefury.com/

jes5199 5y ago

the twitter UI lets you type a bunch of tweets in a row. You get used to it other formats of text start to feel overwrought, unnecessarily verbose, full of meaningless filler

romwell 5y ago
Other formats? You just described this post!

honkdaddy 5y ago

I think it's pretty obvious given how popular these types of threads are that Twitter does provide a mean to present them in chronological order. It's less about the format, and more about discoverability.

jazzyjackson 5y ago

IIRC (got banned from twitter for 'bot like activity' first time I replied to Elon Musk): Pressing "Enter" sends the tweet, so it's pretty natural to just keep typing more posts.

brailsafe 5y ago

Same. It's kind of hard to believe people are still on what should be a dead platform, nevermind that people have made it even worse with long form threads like this.

guerrilla 5y ago

No, the person is replying to themselves. That's how you create threads. There is a UI mechanic to make it trivial as well but it's only been around for a couple of years. It's the same as how threaded email and news clients work but there's one small difference: the display will prioritize the originator over other people who are also replying.