Fwiw, I prefer chain of tweets like this to blog posts. It forces the author to compress as much information as possible into every paragraph and split up their thoughts.
A blog post can be equally "to the point" as a Twitter post, your SEO might suffer but I'd imagine 99% of bloggers really don't care. And FWIW, anyone can setup a WordPress in just a few minutes assuming you use a *.wordpress.com, to name just one of many free blogging platforms.
My opinion of course. Those who enjoy the twitter conversations, go for it.
It's funny, almost like I think everyone should have a website.
This doesn't really make much sense. How are you getting lost in a single top-to-bottom thread? Memes are as obstructive as in blog post and banter.. well unless you're clicking into possible individual tweet replies they are just... not present at all.
Its like saying 'I wish he hadn't told they story down the pub, the pub is a terrible place to tell stories as it is too noisy and I find it hard to follow with everything else going on'. But hey, they were down the pub telling stories, that is where it happened and that is where they were happy to do it. They might not have wanted to sit on a stage at a conference or record a video for you.
By all means take their story and retell it like journalist and bloggers have done for years, but don't complain about someone's medium, just be glad they shared the story at all.
I just link to a better format from my twitter when I want to tell a longer story and it works great. I find writing longer stories in a string of tweets even more annoying than trying to read them.
Similarly, this fellow is telling an interesting anecdote. But what we see here is a man searching for a paragraph while living in the desert of a sentence.
More like 'I wish he hadn't told the story at the pub in small snippets over 4-6 drinks'
Twitter, unlike pubs, has intentional systems in place to interrupt medium to long-form communication. It was designed to be a bad medium for telling stories, so chaining a dozen tweets is a frustrating experience for both the author and the reader.
It's obvious why people still insist on using Twitter for telling stories: Twitter is a massively popular website, and the author will lose some percentage of readership if they link to an external blog. Ideally, Twitter would recognize that this is now a major use case and would add UI to support long-form communication. In the meantime, it'd be nice if people shared Twitter chains via threadreaderapp or authors used screenshots of the Notes app. Using a medium designed for telling stories would be even better.
But, again, if you're also annoyed that social story telling IRL happens with interruptions and digressions and background noise (and perhaps even four to six drinks!) then you are really asking for something other than what it is.
Really, this pub/Twitter comparison doesn't work. Yes, interruptions happen IRL, but they aren't systematically happening every other sentence. Also, you can use body language or talk louder to ensure you're understood IRL. Internet communication doesn't have the same luxury.
Disruption while consuming information in the browser is a different animal compared to person-to-person contact.
No, you usually have to go see Shakespeare for that.
I had to scroll down ~75% of this page, passing what seemed like many dozens of posts all saying the same useless shit about the format and not talking at all about the content.
And that got me to the next top post, which... is someone just unrolling it.
Thankfully, soon after, someone asks a legitimate question about the content. Nearly at the bottom.
The twitter thread on the other hand is concise and easy to scroll through. A couple of memes because someone's having fun telling their story seems relatively benign compared to the average HN comments section drivel.
I appreciate the critiques, saves me the wasted time going to the twitter thread and then being annoyed in the same manner.
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I don't necessarily like this kind of bent, but that's the way that it is. If you want consistent technical conversations, you should check out Lobste.rs.
Critiquing the font is a technical conversation to a front-end designer :)
What GP said doesn't seem condescending.
(This is a direct question, not sarcasm)
But I can see everything using Firefox (with lots of extensions). So not sure if it's browser or extension dependent. Annoying either way.
Was just curious since I (weirdly) only ever look at twitter in a browser
This is incredibly condescending.
I also tried Internet Explorer 11, but that genuinely froze my entire computer in its attempt to force me to load the page in Edge. I blame that more on IE than Twitter though.
The domain name in Twitter URLs can be replaced with that of Nitter or its mirrors to view the same tweet and threads using the Nitter front end.
It's a hard login wall.
Very few blogs puts such a requirement on their readers.
[1] It started happening last week.
But it doesn't. GP's summary fits in a tweet.
The author just split his text whenever he ran out of characters. He didn't compress any information.
I didn't get that feeling. If he truly did that the tweets would end in the middle of a sentence.
I also don't think the summary covered all of the interesting things in this story. No, I think the tweets told it in a good way, split up in bite-sized chunks.
Okay, so I'm a snob.
I do have to laugh though when I open the HN comments and the top comment is not about the content of the link at all but is some orthogonal gripe.
The web interface is absolutely horrendous on desktop and on my phone.
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