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It's to allow engagement for any part of the post chain. With blogs it is hard to respond to just part of it - and it is hard to respond in most blog comment s
by shagie 4y ago
It's to allow engagement for any part of the post chain.
With blogs it is hard to respond to just part of it - and it is hard to respond in most blog comment systems. Twitter solves both of those problems.
- dilap 4y agoIt also promotes tighter writing -- it feels more egregious to have a filler tweet than a filler sentence in a traditional essay.
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- blowski 4y agoCopy and paste? Seems to work well enough on HN.
- everdrive 4y agoCould you please break your post up into multiple posts so that I can react to each part individually?
- sureglymop 4y agoBut that's also terrible. Now anyone can take any piece of it out of context and even comment on it. I mean it's worse on Twitter but anyway. These threads can also be used as a form of clickbait. Often on twitter the first tweet in a thread will have 3x the engagement of each following tweet.