It's hard to overstate how annoying is this kind of Twitter blogging.
This notwithstanding, as an academic, I can say that most never question this absurd system, too focused on the publish or perish treadmill.
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Here is the blog version of the tweet storm:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopi...
Thanks! I've e-mailed the moderators to ask them to replace the article's URL with this one.
> It's hard to overstate how annoying is this kind of Twitter blogging.
It's like buying a book with one sentence. For the next sentence, buy volume II of the book!
Twitter blogging is fine, albeit annoying. Twitter discussions, on the other hand, are impossible to follow.
What's so wrong about it?
It's full of distractions. Did you know that chocolate is a crystal? So when I see a thread on twitter, I can't decide if the next tweet is directly related or is it a reply. It would take less than 6 months to get to the moon by car at 60mph. Then there are stats like retweets and likes for every tweet that's totally meaningless, why can't people just push the top tweet? #furries are trending in Hungary btw. Then there's the conceptual problem about how authors interact with the platform. They must fit a paragraph into 280 characters, they can't edit a previous tweet so it's less coherent and they certainly can't give it a proper read through. Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone in Egypt in case you wondered. Unfortunately this makes Twitter threads more like a rant rather than a regular blog post.
Basically, twitter.
Now I know that chocolate is a crystal. And when looked into it further, I found out chocolate can be tempered. [1] While I am glad to know a little more about the chemistry of chocolate, I must say I am also glad I was not the one to wade through Twitter. I can say I learned it on Hacker News, instead.
[1] https://www.chocolatetemperingmachines.com/pages/chemistry-b...
On HN, I would think that would be obvious- not fit for purpose. It comes down to the old adage: what if everyone did this?