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It's lower effort to make a stream of consciousness post one sentence at a time, and as a bonus, there's a built in audience / discovery network where they're p
by dymk 4y ago
It's lower effort to make a stream of consciousness post one sentence at a time, and as a bonus, there's a built in audience / discovery network where they're posting.
- tuatoru 4y agoLower effort for whom? Back when I were a lad, we were told to write so that our readers did not have to work to understand us. The point of writing is to be understood. Old man yells at cloud.
- dymk 4y agoLower effort to the writer, obviously. The point of posting on Twitter is not to be understood, it's to be retweeted.
- tqi 4y agoI think it's helpful to keep in mind that with most of examples that get shared around, the choice for the author was not a string of tweets vs blog post, but rather a string of tweets vs not sharing at all.
- dylan604 4y agoHow does one go back and edit a stream of consciousness like that into an actual coherent thought later though? I was just having a conversation similar to this where it was explained "this is just how people my age do things". While attempting to avoid boomer/millennial tropes, this does make me wonder how much different schooling is now vs then (hoping to avoid those memes too). I was always getting in trouble for just saying whatever came to mind vs slowing down to think if it really needed to be said or more specifically how it was said.