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This is super interesting, but why are people posting this kind of thing to tweet streams? Twitter is just absolute shit for trying to document this kind of res
by brk 4y ago
This is super interesting, but why are people posting this kind of thing to tweet streams? Twitter is just absolute shit for trying to document this kind of research, IMO.
- dfee 4y agoObviously the reach is better and that’s what they’ve optimized for.
- layer8 4y agoThey could tweet with a link to a blog post for the details. I guess some followers would still be too lazy to follow the link, but that’s not a valid argument anymore IMO.
- jeffbee 4y agoThere are so many reasons to do it this way. You reach a huge audience. You don't have to how your own assets. If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air. Search engines will index it immediately. Etc. People get many benefits from posting this way.
- gist 4y ago> You reach a huge audience. You would reach the same huge audience by putting in a summary and link to a website with the detailed info. > If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air So someone who is capable enough (or a team) to pull off and uncover this exploit can't be troubled to run a website (server whatever) that can handle ddos or traffic?
- dnadler 4y ago> can't be troubled to run a website Yes, that's right. They have more important things to do than worry about hosting a website. They rightly use third party applications to disseminate information.
- layer8 4y agoThey could use GitHub Pages or whatever. There are enough ways that don’t require much additional effort.
- dnadler 4y agoYeah, I don't personally think twitter is the best place either, but it's unambiguously easier to type a few sentances and click "post" than it is to make a webpage of any kind.
- gist 4y agoMore important things? You mean getting more publicity and attention for their efforts as well as praise for what they discovered? Separate point do people really 'worry' about hosting a website where all it has to do is display static information?
- dnadler 4y agoI'll just address your last point, which I think is actually fairly important to think about. It's easy to assume that other people have the same knowledge/skillset as you do, or to think that things that are trivial for you are similarly easy for others. This is simply not the case, and it's important to try to put yourself in others shoes. (As an aside - this is what I think leads to the best products.) I've met many programmers who are absolutely brilliant in their field who do not know, nor care to learn, how to stand up even the most simple website. Is twitter the best place for long form articles? Probably not. But as the original commenter pointed out, there are many benefits to it as well.
- Osiris 4y agomedium.com works fine for blogs like this.
- Encrust6221 4y agoMy sole motivation for wanting twitter to die is that this format dies with it.
- IshKebab 4y agoI hadn't thought about that but you're right that would be amazing.
- Spivak 4y agoEh I've already seen people posting links to Mastadon instances with the same format. Unless "Twitter style social" dies the format will live on.
- hamburglar 4y agoI think the difference is that Mastodon doesn't make the format one of their defining characteristics. And maybe eventually everyone will eventually see that a longer format post is an option, and that it makes sense for certain content. And Automattic will register macrotweets.com and make it a redirect to wordpress and everything will go full circle.
- tomp 4y agoWhere would you post it? At least Twitter threads have no ads, in contrast to Reddit, Medium etc.
- dpkirchner 4y agoOne downside to using Twitter is it's not possible to know if the posts are authentic. Other platforms have similar problems but ideally this content would be posted on user's (and governments and so on) own sites and then linked to from sites like Twitter.
- netsharc 4y agoFully agree.. 9/10 for the research, but 1/10 for the lazy presentation. People are saying "It's easier to go viral", oh please, is everyone that pathetic, chasing after their 5 minutes of Internet fame?
- fckgw 4y agoIt says right in the tweet thread that will publish their full findings soon. Twitter is a great way to get a summary out to a large audience quickly.
- Osiris 4y agoI was hoping that the first tweet would link to a blog with all the details. Oh well.
- dang 4y ago"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This exact complaint about Twitter formats has appeared hundreds of times over several years, and is the #1 reason we added this guideline. Note: the guideline acknowledges that these annoyances are annoying. It just says we need to focus on the interesting, specific bits of a story.