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Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by vincentmarle » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

rockbruno wrote: post #18

colesantiago wrote: post #2

It 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.

Or when they suspend you for no reason...

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by yellow_postit » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

kulor wrote: post #8

colesantiago wrote: post #2

It 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

Adding on — if you are building an audience you should be investing in platform diversification and alternative ways to reach otherwise you are a ranking or feature whim change away losing access.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by whimsicalism » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

They should definitely be using the full width of screen for longer form "notes." I personally would also prefer a modal as opposed to a completely different page.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by simonlc » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #15

In 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?

Same thing for some of the other links, which they do twitter.com/i/bookmarks for example, instead of twitter.com/bookmarks.

I know this because at one point it was broken in the UI and one of the side links went to a profile instead.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by yellow_postit » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #2

It 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?

If this ends the thread unrolling apps and posts that are clickbait headlines for 1/x to continue it’ll be good as a user but probably bad for Twitter’s engagement volume.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by dariusj18 » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #17

interesting 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 and probably more I forgot. I wonder if they'll eventually go full-circle and add a P…

Every walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrations and openness.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by randommind » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:15 PM UTC

I don't know, in times when account suspensions and/or removals for political reasons seem progressively more frequent (and arbitrary), it doesn't seem like a great idea to entrust the longer writings to them as well... It seems wiser to maintain separate blogs.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by barrell » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:17 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #2

It 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?

Analytics, design, freedom of speech, durability, interoperability, privacy, different writing UI, monetisation, independence, possibly domain management and surely much much more.

It's a nice feature to finally have but I wouldn't undercut the decades of work that entire teams have devoted to blogging tools. Network effects aren't that powerful, plus twitter's network effects aren't even all that strong in all domains

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by jeanlucas » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:17 PM UTC

Just like all twitter stuff, is this demo only for iOS?

edit: not working for me on Android/web, but could be geo-locked since I am in Brazil.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by anonymoushn » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:18 PM UTC

You can tell the video is a mockup because it's missing a bunch of multi-second load times.