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In my experience, most people on twitter won't click to read long form content if it opens in a separate view. They won't read past few tweets either. I believe
by searchableguy 4y ago
In my experience, most people on twitter won't click to read long form content if it opens in a separate view. They won't read past few tweets either. I believe most twitter users don't want to read beyond 280 characters. A thread provides them an opportunity to comment on any 280 characters section they have actually read.
They should have provided similar interface to typefully to write long form tweet and a button to view all tweets as an article like threader app while keeping the same UX/UI with little changes.
- ProfessorLayton 4y ago>They won't read past few tweets either I believe this is because twitter is actively hostile to reading long threads. They'll truncate the middle of a thread, or show "load more tweets" for replies — and then they'll only load just a few more tweets. Want to keep reading? Load a few more tweets at a time. It's miserable.
- captn3m0 4y agoYeah, a better UX would be to just make long threads more readable (compact tweets with smaller icons).
- idealmedtech 4y agoI think people actually want to read longer form content on Twitter, just look at how often threads appear under the viral tweets topic! It's more fundamentally a twitter problem than a user attention span problem in my opinion.