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Re:So I bought something at a thrift store, it's a “Cellebri... by floatingatoll on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:40PM (#20085172)
Readers of a Twitter stream of thought generally realize that they’re dealing with a loosely connected series of thoughts. While individual appreciation of this style of writing varies, there’s no confusion about what’s going on.

Writing in that manner in a blog post would be taken more poorly, as we generally have higher structural expectations of “a blog post” than we do of “a Twitter thread”. Simply writing one paragraph per tweet into an append-only post would not be equivalent.

So the readability might improve for removing Twitter’s UI, but then the content would be evaluated as an “essay” rather than as a “stream of consciousness”.

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