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I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it
by dgs_sgd 4y ago
I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further.
As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.
- danieldisu 4y agoDon’t celebrate it yet, threads have very high click through rate, I really doubt that these are going to replace threads because they won’t dare to touch “the algorithm” after they see the decrease in interactions
- hot_gril 4y agoI still won't bother. No matter how fast of a computer you use, Twitter is annoyingly slow to load and seems to leak memory if you scroll too far.
- CyanBird 4y agoMy most despised (feature) of Twitter on desktop is that purposeful delay to alerts, where it blinks for a splitsecond and then the little colored alert icon disappears for a solid 3 to 5 seconds only to appear again this time correctly and permanently It is just so annoying that they would do such a thing, I am sure that they have a/b tested it, I don't care it drives me insane, just make it work properly tho I am sure that they have also taken onto account people like me whom despise it, yet not enough to leave the platform Just an overall worsening of user experience
- DominikPeters 4y agoI always thought this is a bug!
- lupire 4y agoYou give them away too much credit for intent and competence. They probably have a fast alert based on some cache, and a real alert that takes longer to fetch the real data.
- jacobolus 4y agoTry nitter.net, an alternate Twitter front-end that is much less gimmicky and uses dramatically less resources with fewer UI glitches, while also doing a better job of presenting 'threads' of tweets.
- nomilk 4y ago> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
- layer8 4y agoYou’d have loved inline quoting on Usenet.
- rektide 4y agoWe can cite & quote pieces of Notes too. But it wont create anywhere near the interesting forms of engagement an already decomposed thread has. In a thread there are ready made pieces of the thread to talk about. Each piece of the thread has it's own likes. Discussions can start around any piece & we know they're talking about the same general area. Notes feels like a severe & critical downgrade, a regression to a pre-connected, earlier, less capable form. Putting different pieces of information/content into their own places, giving each their own url, giving each their own engagement points: that has been why Twitter's been so remarkably unlike anything else. Ideas have to be broken down, and that constraint has been what's made Twitter so powerful & engageable as a medium.
- lupire 4y agoEveryone is connected, but they are connected to nothing. We don't need more highly accessible trash.
- raydev 4y agoI was there. Someone should've made a nice, readable interface for it.
- layer8 4y agoActually, Usenet clients (like slrn) were the most usable and efficient discussion software I ever came across.
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- pastor_bob 4y agoOne of the advantages of the tweet thread is others can embed one of the tweets elsewhere. I've seen this done often on news sites. This seems to compartmentalize what you're writing, which I think will be unappealing for 'big names' on Twitter.
- sumy23 4y agoI just tried reading some of the things written by Twitter's test authors. I immediately missed the old format. For one, the old format forces succinct points. There isn't any fluff in a Twitter thread. First four paragraphs in the sample I read: > Hello. Hi. Do you have a moment to talk about porgs? > Yes. Porgs, the cute things seen in Star Wars Episodes VII and VIII. > These. > (Image of porg) > Many people might look at this face and see an adorable CGI workaround for the puffins on Skellig Michael, aka Ahch-To. I see a cute, charming, complete menace to the galaxy’s ecology as we know it. A Twitter thread would have started out with something like: "Porgs, the adorable CGI workaround for puffins, are a complete menace to the galaxy's ecology as we know it." So much more direct and to the point. Sometimes, less is more.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoI think it's likelier that your first four quoted lines would have been compressed into a single tweet, including an image, followed by the second one.
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- TillE 4y ago> There isn't any fluff in a Twitter thread. That's optimistic. It's really common to see people drag out a very simple story or point over dozens of tweets.
- rchaud 4y ago> For one, the old format forces succinct points. Succinct points on Twitter can often feel like a clickbait/ragebait headline that's cynically designed to elicit "engagement" from as wide of an audience as possible. There is no guardrail protecting against clout chasers who have the skill to rile up online crowds and make a name for themselves. At the scale that Twitter operates in, I think we can all identify some pretty awful things that have happened because of the above.
- minsc_and_boo 4y ago
- woliveirajr 4y agoWell, the first 3 links from the twitter annoucement gives a "page not found". Seems that they avoided starting with the right foot.