The only thing I don't get is why they didn't try this many years ago. I'm guessing because they might've thought it would break the "core conceit" and the aesthetic and unique differentiator, but in practice everyone has always already been using absurd, unreadable and/or inconvenient workarounds to accomplish this.
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#12Nice! A Medium-like UI is more readable than a "tweet storm".
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#13It 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?
You can own the farm, or be a share cropper on someone elses farm.
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#14The only thing I don't get is why they didn't try this many years ago. I'm guessing because they might've thought it would break the "core conceit" and the aesthetic and unique differentiator, but in practice everyone has always already been using absurd, unreadable and/or inconvenient workarounds to accomplish this.
I have no basis for this other than human insight, but I suspect it didn't happen sooner because Jack didn't want to compete with Ev. It makes sense too if you believe that the internet is an ecosystem and you want to support complimentary products in yours rather than roll your own.
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#15In the GIF, they display that the tool is available under twitter.com/write (which, obviously wouldn't be public yet unless I was invited to participate, which I wasn't). If you go there now, there is a Twitter account there already (a private "Writers Group"). Will that Twitter account disappear now with this change?
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#16I'm by no means a UI/UX expert but the article UI is no good in my opinion. I can't really focus on the paragraphs for more than a couple seconds without effort before my eyes drift over to the margins (could be just me though). Interested to see where this will go!
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#17interesting how Twitter is evolving from a 140-char microblog platform into a mishmash of different vaguely related and tenuously connected services/features:
- main timeline
- direct messages
- Spaces (audio chatrooms)
- Communities (sub-timelines)
- Newsletters (this still exists? will it, if Notes gains traction?)
- and now Notes
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#18It 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?
For starters, your content will not vanish when Twitter inevitably dies or decides to suddenly kill this feature.
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#19I 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.
Don’t celebrate it yet, threads have very high click through rate, I really doubt that these are going to replace threads because they won’t dare to touch “the algorithm” after they see the decrease in interactions
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#20In my experience, most people on twitter won't click to read long form content if it opens in a separate view. They won't read past few tweets either. I believe most twitter users don't want to read beyond 280 characters. A thread provides them an opportunity to comment on any 280 characters section they have actually read.
They should have provided similar interface to typefully to write long form tweet and a button to view all tweets as an article like threader app while keeping the same UX/UI with little changes.