A pox on Twitter threads

[mtbc]

If one has some substantial matter to convey, I have no idea why one might imagine that breaking it up into many little pieces works as well for digestibility as it does with food, the pieces are hardly independent. My heart sinks when a promising-sounding article turns out to take the form of a thread on Twitter. If the medium doesn't naturally fit the form of what you choose to express, instead trampling all over its structure, could be you're using the wrong medium? There are popular alternatives.

Or is everybody reading Twitter through some client that glues these things back together better? Rather like these people who remain ignorant of how godawfully formatted their messages can look in MUAs other than whatever webmail service they composed them in?

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I don't mind long twitter threads, but then, I've been on Twitter almost since it started and have always enjoyed it. I can see how it wouldn't be easy to read, but it doesn't bother me.

[mtbc]

There seem to be enough of them, and links to them, that I guess they don't bother many people much!

[dewline]

That's not on my list of issues with Twitter.

[emperor]

Long twitter threads are quite annoying (especially if they're so long you have to keep clicking the "load more tweets" buttons)

[mellowtigger]

I agree about the long twitter threads. In recent days, though, I admit that I've felt a need to rethink my online presence and how to use them. My current thoughts:
1) Twitter (my original one), for short self-relevant thoughts and activities.
2) Twitter (a new one), for following news and liking/repeating stories, so I join the hive mind.
3) Dreamwidth, for the longer writings and hyperlinks to data sources.
4) Okuna/MeWe/whatever, for the daily social stuff?

It seems overly complicated.