Threads can also create new conversations — just like the comments here on Hacker News — but what's better is that each Tweet (like a paragraph) can have comments and discussions corresponding to that Tweet. There's a finer level of detail in the overall conversation.
It's just fine and posts like this read like oldheads struggling to adapt.
I'm not. I never have had an active account. I get linked to a Tweet and I'm not sure whether I'm at the beginning or the end. Is the embedded tweet a quote of someone they're jumping off of? Or a continuation of an active thread. Where does the thread start and end? Why are other names interjected between the parts? Is there more I'm missing in context?
The UI sucks. It's probably fine if you're familiar with it, but for outsiders trying to figure out what the latest hubub being talked about in the link is, it's pretty unapproachable.
Could just end the conversation here.
Some people have a much easier time writing one paragraph at a time and then replying to themselves. It's a self-editing technique. It can be especially useful to neurodivergent folks, but some neurotypical folks find it easier too.
Twitter is really good for stream-of-consciousness regular thought updates as the thoughts come to you. A blog post is usually expected to be a complete topic crafted as one piece.
DisplayName @username Split across a bunch of little cards with a number to piece them together at the bottom? 2/4
DisplayName @username No, I do not. It's a bunch of extraneous crap that I have to filter out to read the actual point 3/4
DisplayName @username It is the wrong platform for that kind of content, and people are cramming it in anyway. 4/4
It turns out that forcing conciseness and having simple embedded media can make for engaging reading. It's not the right format for all writing, and not everyone knows how to use it (see your example), but it is fantastic for commentary and analysis.
You split text into arbitrary page boundaries, cut off a sentence in the middle, and then put a number at the bottom to tell you where you are in the book.
I’m honestly surprised that people have a hard time filtering this stuff out. Do you get distracted by the chapter headings at the top of a page in a book, or the page numbers? At least with a decent Twitter thread, the individual tweets will be coherent paragraphs. Some people do write Twitter threads where they simply write and place breaks wherever they run up against the 280 character limit, but I rarely see it.
I've basically given up on going to twitter and only try to follow links that are sent to me of content I can't find elsewhere. I can't tell if there is some good reason for the user experience of the platform that I would enjoy if I pushed through, if I am just not the target user, or if it's genuinely just terrible and held afloat by network effects.
Twitter conversations are marginally less vacuous and pointless than YouTube comments, but not significantly so.
>what's better is that each Tweet (like a paragraph) can have comments and discussions corresponding to that Tweet. There's a finer level of detail in the overall conversation.
So there are people out there in the wild who actually unroll those mid-thread tweet replies and read them? Huh.
Both tbh. The snippets being marketing for the whole video, which itself is marketing for the rest of the channel.
I'd wang it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even LinkedIn too if there's a biz link.
i thought people wanted their ideas out there and for people to be delighted to read them. naive.
If I didn't care about the information I wouldn't bother making a video about it in the first place.
If nobody sees your information, does it inform?
Call me old, fine. If that's the line that needs to be drawn, go for it.
I guess I just prefer reading long-form things without the visual distraction of an avatar every few lines, a forced 'page-gap' that has nothing to do with the reality of paper pages, page margins and view space that are entirely dynamic to the device and uncontrolled by the author, moving status notifications in the corners, unrelated authors speaking in the middle of the 'cohesive' thread, etc.
Here's a new definition for 'oldhead' that just struck me : "Those that have witnessed better."
In general I think all of the possibilities that you mentioned with threads making new conversations etc. are true. For me, the issue is more in the UI/UX of both the Twitter website and the Twitter mobile applications and how threads are presented.