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Comment by city17 | Hacker News Reader

Was thinking the same. Once you exceed like 5 tweets in a thread, it becomes a small article and you would've been better off just writing an article in the first place. If you check the thread reader below you can see just how unstructured and incoherent it is compared with a simple article.

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> I have ADHD: it makes writing blogs hard but Twitter easy. So it gets quickly tiring that every time I'm posted there [to HN] that the comments immediately go "why isn't this a blog? Twitter is a bad site for this kind of writing and I hate it blarg"

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440695857699962893

This exact comment of yours is a prime example of why foone hates it when their tweets are posted here.

Thanks, that's interesting. I can see why it's easier for him to tweet in that case. But still doesn't change the fact that an article is easier to consume for the reader.

Foone is a them, not a him.

And yeah, you're right, it's definitely easier for the reader, but the author isn't required to make it easy for their audience -- if it was, Judith Butler wouldn't Judith...Butle and James Joyce wouldn't James Joyce. Foone writes tweets, 149k people have chosen to read their tweets. Personally, while I agree a blog'd be nice, I'm just glad foone makes their knowledge available.

How does that make sense? You write the same amount of text in the end.

The dopamine hit from click the send button can help overcome the ADHD tendency to wander off task. Plus, even if you have half an essay posted to Twitter and still get bored, it's much more difficult to just leave it halfway finished than to leave an unposted blog post in your drafts. And besides that, I'm really not sure why people get so upset at people putting content into the world. Wasn't the point of the internet to make it easier for people to share their knowledge with the world?

Personally I don't care too much.

But on the other hand I have ADD and there's a chance I get bored with a twitter thread and move on before finishing it while a blog post allows me to keep it open in a tab and read it in steps.

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