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Hate the user more than the tool. I know the audience is there and you want impressions but Twitter was never meant for long form content like this. It’s a blog

Hate the user more than the tool. I know the audience is there and you want impressions but Twitter was never meant for long form content like this. It’s a blog post tweeted in chunks. Probably it would reach far less people if it was posted on a niche personal blog so I can understand people doing it but I think it’s not a Twitter problem per se.

jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Twitter's long ass posts suck egg. Twitter threads should be readable. They were and they were fine and good. It was great having content broken up. It was great seeing reactions to individual sections. It should not made impossible to see some's Twitter theads. Get in the sea.
- tbrownaw 3y ago
  > was great having content broken up. Having each paragraph preemptively separated from its context was certainly great for entertainment, but maybe not so much for reasoned discussion.
  - jauntywundrkind 3y ago
    On the contrary, Twitter's threads to me are one of the greatest enhancements to discussion we've ever had. It's quite clear what specifically someone responds to with length-limited tweets. The discussion naturally expands into a tree of refining arguments. Where-as in most text mediums, there's no direct pointers telling us specifically what someone is referring to; it's implicit context we the reader have to infer. If the person even is making a targeted real reply in the first place, isn't just soapboxing. The ability to direct arguments & contestations clearly is far advanced over regular text by the hypermedia form for Twitter. Its wild to me that we haven't rebuilt more discussion systems to generate structure.
tverbeure 3y ago
It's not a blog post tweeted in chunks, it's post-as-you-progress, a conversation that others can follow... or not. I do it all the time, and so did Wenting here. Others will often give suggestions with things to try. Wenting has a blog in which describes completed projects: https://www.wentingzhang.com https://www.wentingzhang.com.

jauntywundrkind 3y ago

Twitter's long ass posts suck egg. Twitter threads should be readable. They were and they were fine and good. It was great having content broken up. It was great seeing reactions to individual sections. It should not made impossible to see some's Twitter theads. Get in the sea.

tbrownaw 3y ago
> was great having content broken up. Having each paragraph preemptively separated from its context was certainly great for entertainment, but maybe not so much for reasoned discussion.
- jauntywundrkind 3y ago
  On the contrary, Twitter's threads to me are one of the greatest enhancements to discussion we've ever had. It's quite clear what specifically someone responds to with length-limited tweets. The discussion naturally expands into a tree of refining arguments. Where-as in most text mediums, there's no direct pointers telling us specifically what someone is referring to; it's implicit context we the reader have to infer. If the person even is making a targeted real reply in the first place, isn't just soapboxing. The ability to direct arguments & contestations clearly is far advanced over regular text by the hypermedia form for Twitter. Its wild to me that we haven't rebuilt more discussion systems to generate structure.

tverbeure 3y ago

It's not a blog post tweeted in chunks, it's post-as-you-progress, a conversation that others can follow... or not. I do it all the time, and so did Wenting here. Others will often give suggestions with things to try. Wenting has a blog in which describes completed projects: https://www.wentingzhang.com https://www.wentingzhang.com.