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Am I crazy, in that I actually like Twitter threads for this sort of thing--at least in the hands of a capable author? When threaded correctly (as this one is),
by bradstewart 5y ago
Am I crazy, in that I actually like Twitter threads for this sort of thing--at least in the hands of a capable author? When threaded correctly (as this one is), its easy to follow. And the requirement to condense and split thoughts into tweet-sized chunks creates natural breaks to pause and consider the content before continuing. I find the cadence of "each thought is a tweet" provides a nice rhythm.
Sure, you can do this with paragraphs in a blog post. But Twitter works equally well in my mind!
- actually_a_dog 5y agoYou may actually have something there. The average word length in English is approximately 5 letters, which gives you an average of about 56 words per tweet. That's roughly 5-6 solid sentences, which is... one good paragraph. It probably didn't work as well before they raised the character limit from 140 to 280.
- snet0 5y agoI think this was one of the few good Twitter threads. Each Tweet was a kind of step from the previous, towards the next. The only thing I think would be improved by having this in blogpost form is more interact-able visuals, equations and similar.
- axg11 5y agoI agree with you. I can understand why a theoretical physicist would find this format frustrating to read. For a layman, the forced tempo of threads helps me understand each point before I move on.
- kirykl 5y agousually this is called paragraphs