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Twitter threads force the author to be more concise and split the thoughts into smaller pieces. And if there are picture to the tweets that makes them even bett

by bhaak 4y ago

Twitter threads force the author to be more concise and split the thoughts into smaller pieces. And if there are picture to the tweets that makes them even better. It's a very good starting point, getting a summary of the topic, before diving into a longer blog post knowing what to expect and with some knowledge you probably didn't have before. The way I'm learning best is having some skeleton that can be fleshed out. A concise Twitter threads builds such a skeleton if I didn't have it already.

ilyt 4y ago
Forcing to be concise in nuanced topics usually does more bad than good. And format of Twitter is abhorrent. Like, even your comment would need to be split into 2 twits Then again I read pretty fast so someone writing slightly longer sentence than absolutely necessary doesn't really bother me in the first place
- bhaak 4y ago
  > Forcing to be concise in nuanced topics usually does more bad than good. Following that argument you can't ever build up proper knowledge unless you get a deep introduction into a topic. > And format of Twitter is abhorrent. I disagree but you need to write to its format. Just writing a blog post and then splitting it up for cramming as much as possible into a tweet, possibly even breaking within a sentence, yes, that is abhorrent. > Like, even your comment would need to be split into 2 twits 3 even if you preserve the paragraphs I used. > Then again I read pretty fast so someone writing slightly longer sentence than absolutely necessary doesn't really bother me in the first place It's not about reading slow, it's about getting small pieces of information. Tweets usually don't have the fluff that many blog posts do. Or even articles that take up one third of the whole piece to describe a person in a coffee shop, drinking a specific brand of coffee to illustrate some superficial point that has a vague connection to the actual topic of the article.

by bhaak 4y ago

ilyt 4y ago

Forcing to be concise in nuanced topics usually does more bad than good. And format of Twitter is abhorrent. Like, even your comment would need to be split into 2 twits Then again I read pretty fast so someone writing slightly longer sentence than absolutely necessary doesn't really bother me in the first place

bhaak 4y ago
> Forcing to be concise in nuanced topics usually does more bad than good. Following that argument you can't ever build up proper knowledge unless you get a deep introduction into a topic. > And format of Twitter is abhorrent. I disagree but you need to write to its format. Just writing a blog post and then splitting it up for cramming as much as possible into a tweet, possibly even breaking within a sentence, yes, that is abhorrent. > Like, even your comment would need to be split into 2 twits 3 even if you preserve the paragraphs I used. > Then again I read pretty fast so someone writing slightly longer sentence than absolutely necessary doesn't really bother me in the first place It's not about reading slow, it's about getting small pieces of information. Tweets usually don't have the fluff that many blog posts do. Or even articles that take up one third of the whole piece to describe a person in a coffee shop, drinking a specific brand of coffee to illustrate some superficial point that has a vague connection to the actual topic of the article.