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This is unfortunately a case of Twitter biasing technical discussions to highly literate, careful people. Good tweeting requires almost Orwellian control over
by lhnz 12y ago
This is unfortunately a case of Twitter biasing technical discussions to highly literate, careful people.
Good tweeting requires almost Orwellian control over writing.
It needs to be extremely terse and explicit.
You need to be the kind of person that will write a tweet, read it and if it could be misunderstood in any way delete it, before rewriting it several times.
You need to do this until you are able to fit each inalienable component fact into 140 characters.
This kind of writer is often careful to form only one idea per tweet, considers using mathematical notation if it requires less characters, and will finally consider placing a [...] on the end of sentences which leave their argument hanging. Though when you have to do a lot of these things, it's often because you have not fully analysed the concept to a point where you understand it well enough to say simply.