I was going to try it out, but the OAuth scopes include way more than just posting in my timeline, is that something you are considering changing, reducing scopes?
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#52In response to https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1335953939473326081?s=... or coincidence? (Nice work)
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#53Hmm, I'm not sure if encouraging people to shout without listening is a good thing. It seems to me like it would just exacerbate the problems with social media.
If everyone used it, no one would read it, so I’m all for it, in that context.
I would find it good for partial use, like tweet on that all day and limit your browsing to once per day or something like that
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#54Reminds me of the good old days of Birdhouse[1].
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#55In response to https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1335953939473326081?s=... or coincidence? (Nice work)
Incredibly I missed that tweet, and also we've been working on this for many weeks, but love the coincidence!
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#56I want this for everything. So many times I go to text or email someone and then get distracted by the new messages in my inbox and forget what I was doing in the first place. It's especially bad on my phone where there might be cross-app notifications. Why did I pick up my phone again?
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#57Typefully cuts a long text into several tweets. Apps like https://threadreaderapp.com/ or https://the.rip/ unroll these stories again. What's wrong with this network where sharing content requires to use such tools both for authors and readers? ;-)
It's neat being able to link to an individual tweet in a tweetstorm, and to be able to favorite and retweet individual ones and have the counts vary, indicating which tweets are the most interesting.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow I couldn't have said it better. This is exactly what we're trying to achieve with Typefully, thanks for expressing it so nicely.
Unfortunately the author cannot read your thanks, see upvotes, engage in a conversation, or learn from others’ input. They use a write-only client to access this community.
When we were texting our tweets to Twitter a decade ago they didn’t respond with 200 random retweets.
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#59Typefully cuts a long text into several tweets. Apps like https://threadreaderapp.com/ or https://the.rip/ unroll these stories again. What's wrong with this network where sharing content requires to use such tools both for authors and readers? ;-)
I think this tool is not very useful, because writing tweets in the character limited box is what forces you to get to the essence of the idea that you are trying to communicate. Your tweet thread will be very unreadable if you use this tool. Consuming using "unrolling" is fine, because it only gets rid of the interface that some people don't like.
> Your tweet thread will be very unreadable if you use this tool.
Isn't that only the case if you don't work with their built in tool on the right to see what the thread will look like? I personally have no problem reading through a thread in this way, especially when the thread is crafted with the individual tweets in mind.
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#60Typefully cuts a long text into several tweets. Apps like https://threadreaderapp.com/ or https://the.rip/ unroll these stories again. What's wrong with this network where sharing content requires to use such tools both for authors and readers? ;-)
The thing you're missing is that each of the tweets in a thread has its own set of replies & quote tweets, some of which may themselves be threads. [1] This is why I like to think of Twitter as a fractal annotation platform: it allows people to write commentary on specific portions of other people's commentary. Twitter's innovation is that it forces the writer to divide their text into annotatable segments before publishing it.
I think it's great that we're coming up with better tools to facilitate the process of writing modular text. Hopefully these tools will make it clearer to writers what Twitter threads are for and reduce the prevalence of behaviors like splitting sentences across tweets.
[1] Unfortunately Twitter's thread-composing UI isn't available when writing a reply to someone else's tweet. It would be nice if they fixed this. (Perhaps the reasoning is that a multi-tweet reply would work better as a quote tweet. I still think it would be nice to have the thread UI available for every tweet, regardless of the context.)