This is great! It’s like modern poetry. I think the research suggests less words per line make it faster reading too.

are you reading on the computer? maybe thats the disconnect. for me each tweet has around 4 lines of text.

so it reads more like the post you are reading now. where each tweet is a decent chunk of text.

making the reading experience only marginally worse than reading something on hacker news.

The amount of UI noise around each tweet and how much you have to scroll, coupled with the need to trigger new loads once Twitter has truncated the number of replies and also HOW MUCH YOU HAVE TO SCROLL makes this a terrible experience

I understand why people tweet rather than write blogs. Twitter gives more visibility and is a far lower barrier of entry than sitting down and writing an article or a blog. That Twitter hasn't solved this problem after years of people making long threads and this being a big way that people consume content on the platform is a failure on their part. Things like ThreadReader should be in-built and much easier to use. I think they acquired one of these thread reader apps too

Like re-inventing Bukowski's writing style with terrible UX