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I have no idea why people do this to themselves https://nitter.net/mcfunley/status/1550219636464967680 https://nitter.net/mcfunley/status/1550219636464967680 i

by ikt 4y ago

I have no idea why people do this to themselves https://nitter.net/mcfunley/status/1550219636464967680 https://nitter.net/mcfunley/status/1550219636464967680 is making it easier but I'm like this is 100% an article that could feature in any tech magazine or blog.

vgel 4y ago
2 reasons, I think: 1, I believe Twitter downranks link tweets in the algorithmic feed. If your following is on Twitter, you need to meet them where they are, but you can't meet them with a link. I've seen some people work around this by combining a Twitter thread that summarizes the post with a link at the end of the thread to the actual post, but then you need to write twice (or 1.5x, I guess) the words. 2, thread-tweeting can be lower barrier than blogging. The tech side (hosting a blog and associated yak care) a little, but mostly the writing. Writing a big post all at once is a thing and easy to get discouraged by, where on Twitter, the lack of an edit button forces you to go forward and not second-guess yourself. It's also more ephemeral, less feeling of "this needs to be perfect since it will live on my website forever". 2.5, There's a retro-tech thread tweeter (who I'll avoid naming since they've requested to not be linked from HN due to this recurring complaint) who's said they specifically find it helpful for ADHD since they can tweet out bursts of little updates, work on something else, then come back. Personally I also have ADHD and trying to write a twitter thread is my personal hell, but to each their own :-)
- theshrike79 4y ago
  As for #2. I'm _really_ jealous for people who can use Twitter as a kind of a blog platform. It's effectively write-only and you can't go and edit things afterwards. My jumbled up mess of a brain would never allow me to get a coherent 20+ tweet chain out without typing it out first, splitting it to tweet sized chunks, editing, re-editing and then copy&pasting it to a thread manually.
  - dicknuckle 4y ago
    Girl, same.

by ikt 4y ago

vgel 4y ago

2 reasons, I think: 1, I believe Twitter downranks link tweets in the algorithmic feed. If your following is on Twitter, you need to meet them where they are, but you can't meet them with a link. I've seen some people work around this by combining a Twitter thread that summarizes the post with a link at the end of the thread to the actual post, but then you need to write twice (or 1.5x, I guess) the words. 2, thread-tweeting can be lower barrier than blogging. The tech side (hosting a blog and associated yak care) a little, but mostly the writing. Writing a big post all at once is a thing and easy to get discouraged by, where on Twitter, the lack of an edit button forces you to go forward and not second-guess yourself. It's also more ephemeral, less feeling of "this needs to be perfect since it will live on my website forever". 2.5, There's a retro-tech thread tweeter (who I'll avoid naming since they've requested to not be linked from HN due to this recurring complaint) who's said they specifically find it helpful for ADHD since they can tweet out bursts of little updates, work on something else, then come back. Personally I also have ADHD and trying to write a twitter thread is my personal hell, but to each their own :-)

theshrike79 4y ago
As for #2. I'm _really_ jealous for people who can use Twitter as a kind of a blog platform. It's effectively write-only and you can't go and edit things afterwards. My jumbled up mess of a brain would never allow me to get a coherent 20+ tweet chain out without typing it out first, splitting it to tweet sized chunks, editing, re-editing and then copy&pasting it to a thread manually.
- dicknuckle 4y ago
  Girl, same.