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>People don't go to twitter for lengthy paragraphs or op-eds.

If this was true, don't you think people would stop posting tweetstorms that are 50-100 (sometimes more) tweets long?

Both can be true. It's entirely possible that the majority of traffic is people that never read tweetstorms and also that tweetstorms are very effective for some users.

I am a daily Twitter user (the key is to find interesting people, and to block annoying people), and I doubt I have seen more than a handful of tweetstorms over 20 and certainly not more than 50.

I've started following @SethAbramson for his analysis of the Muller investigation and a recent thread of his was over 130.

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 quit Twitter in '10 b/c of the 'social media consultants.' I recently started simply bookmarking specific accounts related to politics and propaganda. When certain Tweets get lots of comments, I read them all (up X,000s; yes, this is problem).

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.

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