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>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full thre
by archon1410 4y ago
>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in
that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full threads even when logged out.
>you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
I've never encountered interspersed comments on Twitter threads. they're visible the way they're visible in the thread reader website, one after the other. other comments come at the end of the thread.
- yreg 4y agoI don't need to see an avatar, date and username above each sentence of a blog post. Twitter monologue threads are dumb, the whole premise of the service is to write under 280 characters (used to be 140).
- dredmorbius 4y agoThe practice has some merits. Sometimes a thread simply evolves out of a conversation. Sometimes one comment just leads to another. And sometimes it's helpful, useful, and/or interesting to have individual sentences or paragraphs of a thread split into their own items, so that it becomes more clear what specific parts of a discussion are especially engaging, confusing, interesting, etc. People can comment or respond to specific parts of the thread rather than the whole thing. For writers who are accustomed to either global/overall feedback, or none at all, this can be enlightening. It's about as close to the experience of giving a live lecture or presentation as exists online, in that in a live presentation people can also respond or react to specific moments as they occur.
- yreg 4y agoI believe all of that can be done just as well if not better with a traditional comment section like the one here on hn. My other issue is that the conversation is very difficult to follow since it's split into many threads. >it becomes more clear what specific parts of a discussion are especially engaging, confusing, interesting, etc. People can comment or respond to specific parts of the thread Quoting solves this. Obviously Twitter works for you, which I find enlightening since up until now I thought that the experience is subpar for everyone and the reason long form content is posted on twitter is purely because it's easier to spread it around. Clearly there's more to it.
- dredmorbius 4y agoFor what it's worth, I don't use Twitter. My comments above are based on my experience writing, reading, responding to, and otherwise interacting with and observing longer toot threads ("tootstorms" on Mastodon, comparable to "tweetstorms" on Twitter). And are compared with experiences on numerous other platforms and systems, ranging from Usenet to HN, and in particular including Reddit, G+, Diaspora*, and Mastodon. Mastodon is a rough Twitter analogue. It tends to give a broader exposure than forum-based or friend-based (e.g., Google+, specific subreddits) forums. And again, in particular what I observe is people responding to specific toots within a longer stream in a way that's simply not evident in other formats. It's not an unallowed good. It is a notable characteristic of the format, however. Some examples are hashtagged through my profile (though this link doesn't seem to be working at the moment): <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/tagged/tootstorm https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/tagged/tootstorm> As an alternative, try: <https://toot.cat/web/tags/tootstorm https://toot.cat/web/tags/tootstorm>