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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by untog on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:04PM (#13226508)
What makes tweetstorms better than just letting people write long tweets? Tweetstorms infuriate me because they totally dominate my feed and ensure that the same tweet keeps being shoved back to the top of the timeline. Much better to let people write long tweets and just hide the part >140 characters behind an expand button. So I can safely ignore the whole thing.
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Re:Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company by madeofpalk on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:30PM (#13226599)
The pacing of tweetstorms is what makes them unique. It's something fairly unique - if I wanted "longer tweets" I would go to Medium.

The timeline thing is a real(ish) problem that can be solved with UI, in a similar way how they show conversations inline (automatically collapse them)

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