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Comment by xkbarkar | Hacker News Reader

Was twitter really the right place for this? Very informational piece, I liked it. But having to read it in 12 sections was awkward. Disclaimer, I already dislike twitter.

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It forces the writers to make every sentence count. No space for fluff, people would just stop reading the chain. It results in a much more condensed style than e.g. blog content.

I like that each tweet/paragraph can have its own commentary. Provided it isn’t anything political or bait-ey, the discussion following each tweet can be insightful, and are more contained and targeted than those usually found at the end of a blog post.

It’s important to remember that it’s just a different medium - you’ll find blogs, Reddit and Facebook posts, memes and infographics on this topic.

Except I stopped at the first sentence when I realized there wasn't a link to any actual readable content.

I'm not the biggest fan of twitter but this is a practicing internal medicine doc that is conveying information primarily aimed at other doctors in training or practice - this is information that is for the most part readily available, nothing groundbreaking here, there are podcasts on the topic, videos and other paid for sources of information. The novelty is the medium - and if there are some that benefit from it and the like the format I don't see the harm.

For a lot of people it's both the most effective way to communicate atomic components of a stream of thought, and to reach an audience. Very few other platforms offer the same opportunity.

What I don’t get is why it’s good to communicate “components of a stream of thought” as opposed to, you know, a complete thought.

Probably for the same reason bible is separated into verses. Easier to find more profound meaning in a small atomic bit of a though taken out of context.

I'm suddenly tempted to tweet the entire Bible.

Somebody already did.

Which version?

There is more than one version of Twitter?

replace twitter with nitter: https://nitter.it/tony_breu/status/1543311124560592898

since I don't use twitter, I've set up a userscript to do it for me

I use Privacy Redirect to redirect Twitter to some Nitter instance and Instagram to some Bibliogram instance. I don't know if there are other people that do the same here, but I do that on those two websites because they are really intrusive and really heavy to visit from a web browser.

fixed: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1543311124560592898.html

Not sure why people are defending this. It’s not like separating a page into paragraphs. This is so jarring it’s distracting.

On the other hand, I’m not sure I would have sat through an entire blog post on the same issue. The tweet format is a highlight reel, especially for subjects I don’t even know I’m interested in yet (this wouldn’t go looking for long form content).

There’s bots to unroll threads. Eg tag @threadreaderapp and type unroll. Or just tag @UnrollThread.

Not sure why people are defending this. It’s not like separating a page into paragraphs. This is so jarring it’s distracting. I don’t know what it is about the format, but separating the piece like this makes it so I’ve completely forgotten what the previous tweet was when I’ve gotten to the next one.

I don’t have the same problem with long threat tweets, and in many cases prefer them over blogs as they’re forced to include only the most salient points.

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