Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value.

Your new content appears in feeds in seconds.

The small content size constraints allow readers to follow more people, making the network more connected.

>Massively bigger network than the blog-o-sphere provides more value.

I question the value. Yes, there's discovery but nothing is keeping anyone from clicking through a link from a short summary. And, if people don't? Personally I'm OK with that. No one is paying me for eyeballs. Way too many people are obsessed with pageviews even if they don't get compensated for them.

Yes, you're right, feed seems to be the major differentiator. RSS never really reached the same user experience.

> somehow everyone is on Twitter now.

Well, you can't reach me through Twitter. I think the "everyone" you refer to is "everyone who thinks they're important". Lots of politicians, journalists, "celebrities" and academics.

I tried to read the tweeter's opinions, but gave up after three sentences (3 tweets). That's a truly awful way to consume a reasoned argument.

I think I'm mostly confused about academia really. I get it, it's a nice and easy format to quickly share one's thoughts, so masses are there. Now people who need to speak to the masses (celebrities, politicians) are also there. But academia should be different as I though. Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list or a specialised blog or whatever good format that were invented on the internet. Instead it is composed as a series of linked SMS-sized messages on a walled-garden type of platform.

> Post like this one seem to be rather belonging to a mailing list

Couldn't agree more. I grieve the decline of mailing lists.

It's still better than Facebook and LinkedIn for login, because I can read a tweet without login at least. Show reply requires login but who cares garbages?