Re:Reverse engineering Skifree
by derefr on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:27PM
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> Somehow, writing the exact same structured text that would go into a blog post in a thousand tweets is different?
Yes? A blog post is a commitment; you write out a bunch of text, and then you have the option to polish and edit it, so there's generally the expectation that you'll polish and edit it. But you don't want to do that, so you just write the blog post (or half the blog post) but never publish it.
On Twitter, you can just write half an unedited blog post, and then stop; and people will still derive value from that.
Yes? A blog post is a commitment; you write out a bunch of text, and then you have the option to polish and edit it, so there's generally the expectation that you'll polish and edit it. But you don't want to do that, so you just write the blog post (or half the blog post) but never publish it.
On Twitter, you can just write half an unedited blog post, and then stop; and people will still derive value from that.