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Re: Twitter Notes

#41

Post by pastor_bob » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

dgs_sgd wrote: post #4

I 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.

One of the advantages of the tweet thread is others can embed one of the tweets elsewhere. I've seen this done often on news sites. This seems to compartmentalize what you're writing, which I think will be unappealing for 'big names' on Twitter.

Re: Twitter Notes

#42

Post by symlinkk » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

This is terrible, the entire point of Twitter is that each tweet is short and easy to digest. The constraints forced authors to cut out all fluff. They’re diluting the one thing about their platform that made it special.

Re: Twitter Notes

#43

Post by systemvoltage » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

So much margin on either side of the mobile layout. I can read like 3 words on a line. Why do we need so much white space!?

Re: Twitter Notes

#44

Post by rammy1234 » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:33 PM UTC

there is a great potential.

Re: Twitter Notes

#45

Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

I get why they have been working on this (ppl's thread posting out of control) but making longform posts content live on / inside the platform reaks of Facebook walled garden, or Medium etc. Should be encouraging ppl to have blogs or post on urls and just link to them. I dunno, it's annoying direction.

Re: Twitter Notes

#46

Post by whimsicalism » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

bpodgursky wrote: post #31

whimsicalism wrote: post #23

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.

Honestly, no. I find HN comments practically unreadable because of the lack of wrapping. The default render width of a tweet is perfectly reasonable. Maybe you could extend it out to the width of a substack or medium post. But there's nothing natural about stretching a sentence out across 800 horizontal characters. It's just miserable on a good monitor.

I guess I should have just said wider, not necessarily full width. The current experience is incredibly narrow and bad on desktop.

Re: Twitter Notes

#47

Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

Aside, why is this shared in a very very long weird GIF and not a video. (can't pause/seek)

Re: Twitter Notes

#48

Post by tantalor » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

Apparently the Twitter app (android) doesn't support them. Nice.

Re: Twitter Notes

#49

Post by __ryan__ » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #45

I get why they have been working on this (ppl's thread posting out of control) but making longform posts content live on / inside the platform reaks of Facebook walled garden, or Medium etc. Should be encouraging ppl to have blogs or post on urls and just link to them. I dunno, it's annoying direction.

Twitter should be encouraging my grandma to leave twitter and go to random websites to view long tweets?

Re: Twitter Notes

#50

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:41 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?

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