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Re:A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong by honkdaddy on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:56AM (#28245997)
Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.

Agreed that it can be clunky to read depending on the platform, but there's a reason lots of prominent personalities and bloggers still use them.

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Re:A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong by CogitoCogito on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:21AM (#28246335)
> Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...

Too bad the inline reply style got lost in email culture, but it's good to know it's alive and well on Twitter!

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Re:A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong by neutronicus on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:29AM (#28247159)
Personally, I'm glad it's mostly dead, at least in a forum context.

To me, at least, the inline replies were always a signal that a conversation was about to degenerate into an interminable running battle over minutiae.

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