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It's disappointing that some very clever and interesting people now write posts (exclusively?) on twitter. This means that many people, like myself, cannot read
by pheasantquiff 5y ago
It's disappointing that some very clever and interesting people now write posts (exclusively?) on twitter.
This means that many people, like myself, cannot read them (for non-technical reasons).
I have a couple of solutions to this:
The first is very low-tech. If you post a twitter link please copy/paste the tweet into a HN comment.
The second is please simul-post your tweets to your personal blog. Of course this requires extra effort, but it could be alleviated by making a twitter client which provides simul-posting. Although such a client is probably against corp-law.
As more people are making informative tweets, we are locking too much valuable information away behind the tweet-wall.
I think this is an important post and am glad [whyoh] has raised the general topic.
- carrolldunham 5y ago>cannot read them Just type nitter.net over twitter.com
- pheasantquiff 5y agoThanks. I just tried this (recent SSD submission) and it worked. I also have a non-javascript browser so I was not optimistic, but it did work. https://nitter.net/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056 https://nitter.net/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056
- gulbrandr 5y agoOther public instances can be found here https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
- sodality2 5y agohttps://twiiit.com https://twiiit.com redirects to a random online instance of nitter.
- bmn__ 5y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425746
- oxplot 5y ago> some very clever and interesting people Clever people value their time. When twitter reaches a large audience and has the lowest friction for sharing content, then that's what they use.