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I don't really use Twitter and also prefer blogs to reading tweet threads, but one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/rep

by pugio 4y ago

I don't really use Twitter and also prefer blogs to reading tweet threads, but one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/replying/liking of individual paragraphs / sentences. I'm not sure if this outweighs the different reading experience, but that ability makes for something which is fundamentally different, rather than being a strictly worse version of a blog.

rhn_mk1 4y ago
Does it though? Quoting was always available: select the text, copy it, and go. Is it really the deciding difference? Do people perceive selecting and copying as a major friction?
- jxf 4y ago
  This kind of quoting doesn't link to the original source without extra steps. With Twitter it's one click.
  - avx56 4y ago
    ctrl f
O1111OOO 4y ago
> one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/replying/liking of individual paragraphs / sentences. Agree, it's interactive. It's built to involve you and the audience in a very democratically equal way. Everything is a conversation instead of a soliloquy (blog). HN also offers the same conversational interaction (with much better moderation). It's what pulls us in. It's interesting to see that every comment on HN, for example, is also an original, stand-alone post where you too become an author on this system : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252904 : it's very balanced for all participants. It's hard not to get pulled in by this conversational aspect on Twitter (and similar) when you have (1) a voice and (2) it's generally built to be equal within the system (if we gloss over some issues created by the number of followers that give some users a much greater voice). There's a sense of ownership that comes with this.

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I don't really use Twitter and also prefer blogs to reading tweet threads, but one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/rep

by pugio 4y ago

rhn_mk1 4y ago
Does it though? Quoting was always available: select the text, copy it, and go. Is it really the deciding difference? Do people perceive selecting and copying as a major friction?
- jxf 4y ago
  This kind of quoting doesn't link to the original source without extra steps. With Twitter it's one click.
  - avx56 4y ago
    ctrl f
O1111OOO 4y ago
> one interesting advantage of the Twitter model is that it allows easy quoting/replying/liking of individual paragraphs / sentences. Agree, it's interactive. It's built to involve you and the audience in a very democratically equal way. Everything is a conversation instead of a soliloquy (blog). HN also offers the same conversational interaction (with much better moderation). It's what pulls us in. It's interesting to see that every comment on HN, for example, is also an original, stand-alone post where you too become an author on this system : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34252904 : it's very balanced for all participants. It's hard not to get pulled in by this conversational aspect on Twitter (and similar) when you have (1) a voice and (2) it's generally built to be equal within the system (if we gloss over some issues created by the number of followers that give some users a much greater voice). There's a sense of ownership that comes with this.