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Another "Twitter thread" (sic!), another thing I would like to send a link to someone, but won't, because they don't know twitter and it's impossible to link to the expanded thing and figuring out how to expand it took me several months of bumping into those. Meanwhile Thread Reader App ponders existential questions every time it sees an image. Modern UX everyone.

EDIT: oh, and the author has a proper website... What kind of brain damage does one have to suffer to keep choosing Twitter for long-form writing?

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> What kind of brain damage does one have to suffer to keep choosing Twitter for long-form writing?

Particularly Foone has ADHD, if I'm not mistaking the specifics. And posted about it being the reason for the choice of the choppy-form (just so it's clear I'm not spilling beans).

But frankly, Twitter is sorta alright because authors' efforts still tend to be less long-winded when paragraphs of two hundred words don't quite work. I'm really tired of verbose yada-yada from HN, so finding myself actually attracted to links to Twitter—even though it's a hot mess in most other aspects.

And has explicitly stated that the piece-by-piece authoring and publishing of twitter threads works better for them.

Sure. Fine. But the argument still stands that Twitter is awful for long form writing(asterisk), and I doubt everyone else who makes mile long twitter threads have ADHD.

Also, ADHD is not "brain damage".

(asterisk)and everything else, in my opinion

edit: I'm too tired to fight hn markdown right now.

I mean, piece by piece authoring could still be done on a blog. Which seems better because you're able to edit it afterwards (if you want)

The brain damage in question is the lack of creativity and laziness. In my country it is common (e.g. among journalists) to:

A. Post on Facebook first (which allows longer text) and then use Twitter to re-post content.

B. Write in Word/Notepad/whatever, take a screenshot and post that.

I find both methods much cleaner and easier to follow than a series of tweets.

Replace twitter.com with nitter.net: https://nitter.net/Foone/status/1014267515696922624

Thank you! That's wonderful!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html

I hate Twitter threads too. I think this site does a nice job of pulling them together, and looks cleaner than nitter since it doesn't make each tweet look separate.

The author does this all the time. I follow him on twitter because I love the weird stuff he finds/builds but I don't know why he posts them on twitter instead of a place more suited to multi-sentence works.

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