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Does it not seem ironic to anyone else that all these scoops and news about Twitter are communicated using... Twitter? Is there really no other way besides Twit

Does it not seem ironic to anyone else that all these scoops and news about Twitter are communicated using... Twitter? Is there really no other way besides Twitter to publish and communicate news and information? Maybe others are bought into Twitter, but I'd really like to stop consuming information on the Twitter platform, especially if it's about... Twitter. I know it's passe to complain about Twitter threads as a means of communicating, but there's a reason why people complain - it's a truly awful way of consuming content that requires any amount of depth. I hope the industry can find a better way to complain about Twitter and communicate other valuable information without using Twitter.

lapcat 4y ago
The author also has a newsletter (paywalled, on substack) and a blog. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/
- rexreed 4y ago
  And yet, on HN we post the Twitter thread instead of the blog post. It just seems to me there's some entrenched user behavior that will be very difficult to change. Regardless, this thread wasn't posted on his blog or newsletter, so there's only one way to consume this information, and that's on Twitter. Twitter is entrenched for sure.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    > It just seems to me there's some entrenched user behavior that will be very difficult to change. I definitely agree with that. I left Twitter myself this week, and I've increased my blogging and started a Slack. But it's difficult, because a lot of people are still on Twitter, and they refuse to leave. By leaving, I've decreased my own reach, unfortunately. We'll see what the long-term consequences are. The catch is that Twitter is full of people who never write their own content, aside from tweets. If they leave Twitter, they silence themselves. They can follow RSS, newsletters, etc., but they don't have a voice outside of Twitter. And to be frank, maybe they don't have much interesting to say, but they're still the primary audience for creators. > Regardless, this thread wasn't posted on his blog or newsletter I can't say whether or not it was in the newsletter, as I don't subscribe. It might have been there too?
    - rexreed 4y ago
      Yeah I checked to see if it was posted on his newsletter (they give you a free issue preview on substack) before I posted the above, and it's not there... yet. I think the main thing that motivates Twitter behavior is that it's easy to quickly post stuff including pictures and gut reactions without having to compose a more well-thought out article. As such, Twitter unfortunately still fills that gap of short-posts that are aimed to get high attention. This area is need of (decentralized) innovation.

lapcat 4y ago

The author also has a newsletter (paywalled, on substack) and a blog. https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/ https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/

rexreed 4y ago
And yet, on HN we post the Twitter thread instead of the blog post. It just seems to me there's some entrenched user behavior that will be very difficult to change. Regardless, this thread wasn't posted on his blog or newsletter, so there's only one way to consume this information, and that's on Twitter. Twitter is entrenched for sure.
- lapcat 4y ago
  > It just seems to me there's some entrenched user behavior that will be very difficult to change. I definitely agree with that. I left Twitter myself this week, and I've increased my blogging and started a Slack. But it's difficult, because a lot of people are still on Twitter, and they refuse to leave. By leaving, I've decreased my own reach, unfortunately. We'll see what the long-term consequences are. The catch is that Twitter is full of people who never write their own content, aside from tweets. If they leave Twitter, they silence themselves. They can follow RSS, newsletters, etc., but they don't have a voice outside of Twitter. And to be frank, maybe they don't have much interesting to say, but they're still the primary audience for creators. > Regardless, this thread wasn't posted on his blog or newsletter I can't say whether or not it was in the newsletter, as I don't subscribe. It might have been there too?
  - rexreed 4y ago
    Yeah I checked to see if it was posted on his newsletter (they give you a free issue preview on substack) before I posted the above, and it's not there... yet. I think the main thing that motivates Twitter behavior is that it's easy to quickly post stuff including pictures and gut reactions without having to compose a more well-thought out article. As such, Twitter unfortunately still fills that gap of short-posts that are aimed to get high attention. This area is need of (decentralized) innovation.