Comment by ivraatiems
8 years ago
The fact that it took @jack, by my count, 13 tweets to say this is itself evidence that what he's trying to do will never come to pass on Twitter. Trying to read it, I kept thinking, "why is this so long?"
It's not. I'd read a Medium article or HN or Reddit post three times its length and not blink.
The right move to increase civility of discourse would be to stop providing that discourse via environments designed to discourage comprehension, lower the attention span of the user base, and encourage flamey, bite-sized "takes."
I no longer read "one" tweet that is spread out over multiple tweets, it's too jarring and broken and hurts my eyes. I'm surprised it's still going on.
Twitter upped its character limit recently; next up they should make what I feel is a relatively simple change and turn multi-tweet posts into neatly formatted multi-paragraphed but single-post-seeming articles.
I like this idea. You can post whatever you want, and make it as lengthy as you like, but you have to do it NNN characters at a time, at a rate not to exceed one post every X minutes.
Why is it a long-form post more suited to Livejournal or blog post and in no way written to work on Twitter?
That in itself is indicative of the problem.
It would be nice if there was a platform that was as good at short messages as Twitter while also being good for longer more deliberative posts.
Of course the problem for any new social network is that it is hard for it to become successful, due to network effects.
Platforms don't just stay used the way they were intended or created to be used. Threads became a wildly successful thing on Twitter, and they embraced the phenomenon rather than fighting against it. That's actually a characteristic of good adaption to trends -- something that Twitter could do far more of.