Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by jasode on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:58PM
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>The same zillion people will see your short summary and the link to your blog on Twitter.
No, that isn't what happens and the author of this thread's article makes the same mistake when he writes:
> do not use Twitter. Your ideas, your findings, your knowledge deserve better. Put your thoughts on your own website or blog, and share it with the World using whatever social network you see fit.
Agree that Twitter is terrible reading experience for long form text but the advice given above (by many complainers) misses a crucial issue: tweets with just a link to a blog article has less engagement and that's a penalty writers don't want pay.
Re:Stop Writing Twitter Threads
by xg15 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:22PM
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That's true in the sense of "that's just how the world works", but it also seems like a really shitty state of affairs - a state that Twitter is actively pushing, for its own benefit and to the detriment of everybody else.
No, that isn't what happens and the author of this thread's article makes the same mistake when he writes:
> do not use Twitter. Your ideas, your findings, your knowledge deserve better. Put your thoughts on your own website or blog, and share it with the World using whatever social network you see fit.
Agree that Twitter is terrible reading experience for long form text but the advice given above (by many complainers) misses a crucial issue: tweets with just a link to a blog article has less engagement and that's a penalty writers don't want pay.
https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/
Writers prioritize reaching maximum audience size.