>Twitter's communication style being based around brevity

Is this still true? Every once in a while someone sends a link around to some madman explaining how race or economics or whatever "really" works and it's like a full dissertation with headings, footnotes, clip art. They're halfway to reinventing Grok-o-pedia right there in Twitter. I mean X. I was promised that "X gonna give it to you" but it turns out "it" is some form of brain chlymidia.

Elon was running some sort of $1m competition for the “best” Twitter post for a few months. I think those type of dissertations about Phrenology and the like have fallen off a cliff since the competition ended.

Ooohhhh. I am both glad and horrified to know this. Not how Seneca told me life would be when I learned things.

There's probably a selection bias involved. I haven't been a regular user for a while now, but the big threads like that were significantly outnumbered by individual posts. Meanwhile I'm not likely to send a link to someone of a single single-sentence tweet, because there's not enough meat to it. The stuff that could be shared would usually be an image from the tweet, which I could share directly.

> Twitter's communication style [...] seems particularly unlikely to be helpful for optimising LLMs

This depends on what one wants to optimize the AI for. ;-)

And the amount of bots there isn't helpful either.

recent changes in their comment system have reduced my exposure to bots to a level I much prefer over every other platform I use

How recent? As recently as last weekend I was seeing blue check marks replying with AI generated only-technically-related replies on top of the majority of the posts I looked at.

There are bots here too, lot of them, to a point that rules were amended, this is because it's very valuable to give points to new publications

If that's actually true, good for them, but after what I've witnessed there not that long ago, I doubt I'll try it ever again.