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#2It seems that self hosted blogs are out with this new Twitter Notes feature, I can even see that Medium is pretty much in trouble here as well.
Is there any point to starting a self hosted blog now that this exists for non technical people?
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#3> A small group of writers are helping us test Notes. They can be read on and off Twitter, by people in most countries
I guess I'll be the one to ask. Why would you block certain countries from reading notes, but not from viewing tweets?
Also, I thought Twitter wasn't making any major product changes with the looming Musk takeover. Can we assume this means Musk is backing out of the deal?
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#4I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further.
As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.
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#5Oh my, please at least remove us from the UX context of Tweets. The cognitive load required to read this is entirely too high - my mind is looking for the 'chunks' of tweets, delineated by the retweet/like/etc menus. And the two side bars are entirely too distracting for what is supposedly a more focused and long form read.
Overall though, interesting concept
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#6I guess it makes sense that any micro blog is bound to evolve to have "regular blog" features and the other way around too.
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#7Any hyperlink capability between notes? That could be pretty fascinating.
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#8It seems that self hosted blogs are out with this new Twitter Notes feature, I can even see that Medium is pretty much in trouble here as well. Is there any point to starting a self hosted blog now that this exists for non technical people?
> Is there any point to starting a self hosted blog now that this exists for non technical people?
Yep, personal brand & audience ownership & control
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#9Oh wow, this is interesting. I've been wanting this to exist for years. It seemed like such an obvious thing to do given the workarounds people have, from screenshotting blobs of text to tweetstorms to getting a Medium account just so they'd have a place to put things that were longer than a tweet.
I'm excited to see how it goes! I'm personally not sure how much I'll use it just because I've already adapted to threads as a medium. Looking back at my tweets, I think it was 2018 when I first wrote something that started in my head as a series of tweets, with the specific rhythms and frequent use of images that goes with it: https://mobile.twitter.com/williampietri/status/101093172122...
But I expect it will be good for quite a lot of people as a quick way to publish something, and maybe I'll come around in time.
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#10> A small group of writers are helping us test Notes. They can be read on and off Twitter, by people in most countries I guess I'll be the one to ask. Why would you block certain countries from reading notes, but not from viewing tweets? Also, I thought Twitter wasn't making any major product changes with the looming Musk takeover. Can we assume this means Musk is backing out of the deal?
The board recently endorsed his offer. If he backs down now it would look very bad on him (though with his personality maybe he wouldn't care).