This is super interesting, but why are people posting this kind of thing to tweet streams? Twitter is just absolute shit for trying to document this kind of research, IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This exact complaint about Twitter formats has appeared hundreds of times over several years, and is the #1 reason we added this guideline. Note: the guideline acknowledges that these annoyances are annoying. It just says we need to focus on the interesting, specific bits of a story.
You would reach the same huge audience by putting in a summary and link to a website with the detailed info.
> If your post is popular, it won't get DDoSed off the air
So someone who is capable enough (or a team) to pull off and uncover this exploit can't be troubled to run a website (server whatever) that can handle ddos or traffic?
Yes, that's right. They have more important things to do than worry about hosting a website. They rightly use third party applications to disseminate information.
Separate point do people really 'worry' about hosting a website where all it has to do is display static information?
This is simply not the case, and it's important to try to put yourself in others shoes. (As an aside - this is what I think leads to the best products.)
I've met many programmers who are absolutely brilliant in their field who do not know, nor care to learn, how to stand up even the most simple website.
Is twitter the best place for long form articles? Probably not. But as the original commenter pointed out, there are many benefits to it as well.
At least Twitter threads have no ads, in contrast to Reddit, Medium etc.