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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by Hendrikto on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#31157457)
> both limitations are considered part of the appeal

I don‘t think so. That‘s why you get people posting screenshots of text, or 50 tweet threads including a link to a thread reader "unroll" service.

Many people want to use Twitter like a blog. But it is terrible for that use case.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by krono on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:39PM (#31158191)
It would work fine for those purposes if it weren't for the confusing and unreliable order in which these tweets are rendered, and all the unrelated crap they've put everywhere in between, over top, and all around the actual content.

It's so terrible that it must have been implemented this way on purpose.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by worker_person on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:15PM (#31158644)
But is it worse than any recipe site?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by krono on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:00PM (#31159773)
Asking the real questions :)

They do share a great many similarities. Both seem incapable of logically structuring their content, but most of it consists of gibberish and made-up facts anyway.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wrycoder on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:11PM (#31157807)
I would like to see an option to turn off all images by default, and possibly enable them per user followed.