News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Twitter Notes by rmason on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:51PM (#31840993)
What's wrong with linking to your blog? Twitter was once explained to me as short form blogging which I thought at the time was absurd but I kind of get it now.

The problem is when you try to be all things to all people you fail. I'd so much like someone like Elon Musk to take over Twitter. In the case of Musk I trust his judgement over the team running Twitter now. Can you imagine a group of two dozen people working a year trying to reinvent blogging? Knowing Twitter, sadly I can.

Re:Twitter Notes by fknorangesite on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @05:22PM (#31842031)
> What's wrong with linking to your blog?

Nothing, except that no one will click on your link.

Re:Twitter Notes by masukomi on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:06PM (#31842470)
i don't see that it's functionally any different than what was displayed in that gif. In both cases there's a card to the longer content that needs to be clicked on.

If your argument is that no-one will click on the card then twitter notes will fare no better because it's literally the same presentation.

Re:Twitter Notes by fknorangesite on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:40PM (#31844192)
You're right: it isn't functionally different. But the quantified user behaviour absolutely is.
Re:Twitter Notes by dorfsmay on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @08:26PM (#31843651)
I don't read thread, but I click on link to articles.
Re:Twitter Notes by fknorangesite on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:40PM (#31844194)
I believe it. Perhaps you are not representative of the general population.