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its not fast but I just use nitter.net instead
Yea i heard of nitter, i guess it would be easy to write a ghostmonkey script to redirect all twitter links there.
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Do you know that Twitter still does not show link previews reliably? It does for big sites like Youtube, but if you link your dinky little self-hosted blog, with all the right OG meta tags, it's 50-50 whether Twitter decides to show the link preview image. At this point, one must assume that Twitter will do nearly anything it can to disincentivize clicking out to a 3rd party site. At least it's better than Instagram,…
just as an FYI, someone made a tool specifically to preview what twitter was going to do for a card when you gave it a link: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
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.
> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
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> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
You’d have loved inline quoting on Usenet.
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I love tweet threads. It's a great way to write, forces concision, and as a reader, a quick way to get the gist of a complicated subject. I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book that I then need to skim to get the same info, or read a news article. Blogs have some advantages, but you can't really find them anymore, and I find my Twitter feed is higher signal than my care…
Only wanted to look up etymology at first https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concision hmm... 1. ( somewhat rare ) Conciseness, brevity or terseness. 2. A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments. [...] huh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concision_(media_studies)
While it's all well and good to launch new features, I think Twitter should improve their existing service and I'm referring to low hanging fruits. I don't understand the rationale behind cutting me off while I'm scrolling through Twitter simply because I'm not logged in. Twitter can still display Ads to me irrespective of whether I'm logged in or not. In fact cutting me off means I leave Twitter which means I don't…
You can tell how far a service has “matured” into a big corp by this kind of behaviour. Big corps need to extract their pound of flesh from each visitor. When you tweet you are kind of an unpaid twitter employee. But tweeting gives people enough benefit they don’t seem to mind.
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You can tell how far a service has “matured” into a big corp by this kind of behaviour. Big corps need to extract their pound of flesh from each visitor. When you tweet you are kind of an unpaid twitter employee. But tweeting gives people enough benefit they don’t seem to mind.
Great point, an ad impression revenue is like $0.001, but content could be worth $1 or way more. Someone should write an article on the economics of these free labor models.
Anyway for fun: (c) 2022 quickthrower2
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I would just love to get rid of the obnoxious writing style that twitter thought-leaders use when they're posting a thread. They always start with a fairly obnoxious click-baitey sentence. Then usually a fairly narcissistic hook about how "i'll explain" then "a " and "/1". And then each tweet needs to be punchy enough in 240 characters to keep people reading which produces a particularly annoying writing style. Then…
- " If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. " For all the horrible UX that Twitter, is, one thing I really appreciate is that the thought-leader (or anyone, really) was forced to sit down and write Pascal's shorter letter; i.e. to take their time and think hard how to convey just the essential ideas they want to express, without fluff or narrative detours (which, if preferred, can be found in other…
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I wholeheartedly agree with all of what you said, but this stands out: > And then each tweet needs to be punchy enough in 240 characters to keep people reading which produces a particularly annoying writing style. I also find this writing style insufferable (every sentence a punchline), but though it may seem obvious in hindsight, the explanation that otherwise people won't keep reading had escaped me. I thought that…
/1 The existing Twitter limitations strongly encourage conciseness, which I often like. /2 Blogs, articles, and HN comments like this, can ramble on and make diversions that I don’t always care for. /3 I would like a dynamic slider control where I could contract someone’s writing to their essential point (tl;dr) or expand it (longreads). /4 Bonus boffin round: a control to vary depth/complexity. I mostly would use si…
The web interface was similar to a medium blog post, but the amount of work for both the writer and the reader was more than I think most folks are willing to invest.