>People don't go to twitter for lengthy paragraphs or op-eds.
If this was true, don't you think people would stop posting tweetstorms that are 50-100 (sometimes more) tweets long?
Re:Nice Threads
by maxerickson on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:32PM
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Both can be true. It's entirely possible that the majority of traffic is people that never read tweetstorms and also that tweetstorms are very effective for some users.
I am a daily Twitter user (the key is to find interesting people, and to block annoying people), and I doubt I have seen more than a handful of tweetstorms over 20 and certainly not more than 50.
I've started following @SethAbramson for his analysis of the Muller investigation and a recent thread of his was over 130.
To be fair, even he hates it: https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/940658870808186881
> 1. I hate Twitter.
> 2. No one should be on Twitter.
> 3. I can't wait to no longer be on Twitter.
But using it gets him the reach he wants shrug.
I quit Twitter in '10 b/c of the 'social media consultants.' I recently started simply bookmarking specific accounts related to politics and propaganda. When certain Tweets get lots of comments, I read them all (up X,000s; yes, this is problem).
I'd be curious about your thoughts WRT to this thread, and the resulting 'threaded cache.'
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/939432544008921088
And this was turned into:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/939432544008921088
Edit: I should add that I don't have a Twitter account anymore, just a lurker.
You're ignoring the real-time connectivity that twitter offers to the entire world. No other platform comes close.
And sometimes, this concise thought platform is not enough to share an in-depth thought. Hence, this.
My only complaint here is that this took way too long. Things must move really slow at twitter.