Out of sheer curiosity, what's the appeal of threadreader to you? I see a lot of threadreader noise on twitter and I can't figure out why people prefer its (ad ridden) article-ish view to simply scrolling through a thread on twitter.

I find it less distracting with all of the chrome around each tweet. It combines them into a single block of paragraphs.

Twitter on the Android app works well for reading a thread, but on the webpage it is frustratingly cluttered. Admittedly I do have an adblocker so don't see the ads on thread reader.

Threadreader doesn’t have an obnoxious pop up killing my access and demanding that I download the twitter app as soon as I scroll down one tweet. Much like with Reddit, I’d rather disengage from the platform than install the app.

Pretty much the answers given by aembleton, bombcar, and abduhl.

Twitter is annoying, invasive, naggy, and surveillance tech. I've disabled JS on the site which both nudges me to alternatives and adds significant friction to reading using it.

A big one is you can’t scroll through a thread on Twitter anymore without it demanding a login for many people, and if you’re running an adblocker thread reader is easier to read.