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Twitter threads made of 100+ individual tweets should be illegal. How tf is going to actually read all that 280 characters at a time?
by colinmhayes 4y ago
Twitter threads made of 100+ individual tweets should be illegal. How tf is going to actually read all that 280 characters at a time?
- awinter-py 4y agoyeahhh I normally try threadreaderapp but it, too, chokes on the giant ones I think twitter web client is like a big bundle of scroll jank, home and end keys broken, page up / down quickly hit a reloader, ctrl+F only works within the small span that is rendered. (reasons TM for all these things but I hate it) guessing this journalist did it this way to simultaneously take notes on the trial + market the coverage, but yes it's hard to use
- krrrh 4y agoTwitter actually introduced a premium version called Twitter blue that adds a reader mode meant for reading long threads. But the Twitter thread is really it’s own format, and when done well with photos and graphics punctuating the tweets it becomes something more than just a chopped up article. Kamil Galeev’s threads on Russia and Ukraine are a great example of really taking advantage of the format. Here’s a nice example: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388 https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388