Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by xboxnolifes on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:44PM
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> How about: write it on your website and tweet a link to it.
The more indirect your content, the more audience you lose.
the Hacker News commenter with 20k karma says hey. go post your comments on your own damn blog.
Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by leephillips on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:00PM
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I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make.
I think the point is why are you engaging here instead of pointing us to your blog?
Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by leephillips on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:11PM
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The comments I write here are comments. I don’t write a whole article and cram it into an HN comment box.
Likewise, Twitter, if it’s good for anything, is appropriate for tweets. Less so for dissertations.
I think for your claim about what Twitter's good for to have much meaning we'd have to define "tweets" and what you dislike about them. Are you saying the whole idea of breaking a long writing into smaller pieces is out? Do you just dislike the UI? Do you dislike people being able to comment on each piece independently?
Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by leephillips on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:53AM
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If you know what Twitter is you know what tweets are. I didn’t say I disliked them.
The answer to your three questions is “yes”. Other commenters have pointed out some other reasons long Twitter threads are annoying.
Also I’m skeptical about the engagement that people think they get with Twitter. It may appear that more people are seeing your output, but they may not be actually reading or thinking about it. They won’t refer to it in one of their own articles two years from now.
What do you really want? Twenty clicks of the heart button? Or one person actually building on your ideas?