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I love tweet threads. It's a great way to write, forces concision, and as a reader, a quick way to get the gist of a complicated subject. I learn a tremendous

• Qub3d 4y ago
  Randall thought similarly: https://xkcd.com/1045/ https://xkcd.com/1045/ I think there are places for both. However, reading up on a lot of business case studies, I noticed that a major tipping point for a company is often when they decide to step out of their niche. Diversifying can handicap a company if they aren't careful, because it reduces resources to the core product. However, it can also be a real boon (see: Microsoft + Azure, which now makes most of their revenue)
  • jahewson 4y ago
    Microsoft doesn’t provide a revenue number for Azure. Their entire cloud + server division accounts for 29% of overall revenue.
    • Qub3d 4y ago
      My bad, I was working from memory. I probably did an s/Microsoft/Amazon/ in my head.
      • nl 4y ago
        Amazon disclosed in its quarterly earnings announcement that AWS revenue totaled $18.44 billion in the quarter [snip]. That works out to about 16% of Amazon’s total revenue. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html
        • Qub3d 4y ago
          Wow, I am really getting a lesson in how inaccurate our memory can be. Thanks for the info!
• mgdlbp 4y ago
  Only wanted to look up etymology at first https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concision https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concision hmm... 1. (somewhat rare) Conciseness, brevity or terseness. 2. A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments. [...] huh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concision_(media_studies) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concision_(media_studies)
  • vram22 4y ago
    Also see points 4. and 5. in your first link above.
• wildmanx 4y ago
  > I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book Is this "learning"? You sure get entertained, quick-and-easy-to-digest facts, good for short attention spans, and 5-10 minutes later you go back to whatever else you were doing. Or hop on the next "educative" twitter thread or somesuch. But have you actually learned something? If I ask you a week later to summarize your new insights, will you be able to? Will you even remember that you read about this? I sometimes find an old tab in a browser window that I had forgotten to close a while back. I skim through the contents, oh right! That thing! That was interesting! Turns out, a twitter thread, barely a week old, about something interesting, "I really learned something!", but I had already forgotten about it again, and if somebody had asked, I'd mainly have answered "Oh yeah there was this thing, don't remember the details, or the conclusion, or anything really, but I think I read something the other day", which is just hot air. We should not treat such twitter threads as educational content. They are short-term entertainment, and good at that, but in essence not very different from a tiktok clip of some girl dancing on the beach. If you really want to learn something, you need to invest time. By reading a book, by discussing with knowledgeable people, by trying something out yourself and/or trying to put your own words down. This takes energy, patience, time and can be frustrating at times. But twitter threads can't solve this for you.
  • tern 4y ago
    It depends. There's a utility to accurate takes and bite-sized concepts.