In which Twitter acknowledges that the entire concept of their product is fundamentally incompatible with the way a large portion of their user base uses their product.
You're ignoring the real-time connectivity that twitter offers to the entire world. No other platform comes close.
And sometimes, this concise thought platform is not enough to share an in-depth thought. Hence, this.
My only complaint here is that this took way too long. Things must move really slow at twitter.
If this was true, don't you think people would stop posting tweetstorms that are 50-100 (sometimes more) tweets long?
To be fair, even he hates it: https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/940658870808186881
> 1. I hate Twitter.
> 2. No one should be on Twitter.
> 3. I can't wait to no longer be on Twitter.
But using it gets him the reach he wants shrug.
I'd be curious about your thoughts WRT to this thread, and the resulting 'threaded cache.'
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/939432544008921088
And this was turned into:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/939432544008921088
Edit: I should add that I don't have a Twitter account anymore, just a lurker.
I say that without snark, just wonderment at how resilient it is even thought it's so totally ill-suited for the actual use.
There is a time and a place for long-form text, but that should never be because the writer has not taken the time to make the text short.
There's a nugget of wisdom in what you're saying, and it animates a lot of the backlash on Twitter for expanding to 280 in the first place. But I think the value isn't concision but clarity. Concision forces clarity in some contexts, for some people, but destroys it in many other circumstances.