Twitter Notes

Post by Fogest » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 12:06 AM UTC

manmal wrote: post #162

nomel wrote: post #153

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> Do you know that Twitter still does not show link previews reliably? This seems like it might be a somewhat good thing, for privacy. User generated trackers could be included in topical tweets.

Is that image not just resolved once, while posting? I remember Apple solving it in a similar way for iMessage - the sender always generates the preview.

Post by pbronez » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 12:11 AM UTC

physicsgraph wrote: post #220

robocat wrote: post #201

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/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…

I'm unable to find the specific company and website in my old emails, but I have seen an example on the web of what you're describing. The reader could select whether to expand or collapse sections (e.g., I want more detail on this subsection). 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.

Post by jahewson » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 12:27 AM UTC

Qub3d wrote: post #183

tern wrote: post #175

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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…

Randall thought similarly: https://xkcd.com/1045/ I think there are places for both. However, reading up on a lot of business case studies, I noticed that a major tipping point for a company is often when they decide to step out of their niche . Diversifying can handicap a company if they aren't careful, because it reduces resources to the core product. However, it can also be a real boon (see: Microsoft + Azure, whi…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 12:48 AM UTC

drusepth wrote: post #97

Interestingly enough, Notes are editable (as seen by the "edited" tag on https://twitter.com/i/notes/1539613004370788352 ). Might be an indicator of how editing will work if/when it trickles down to normal tweets, too.

Post by Pxtl » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 12:54 AM UTC

lamontcg wrote: post #92

dend wrote: post #76

My reaction to this is that it's an effort to keep users within the "walled garden" of Twitter, which is not the best thing for those that write. Recall the story with Medium - yes, you get broader reach with less effort, but at the cost of giving up control of your content. I know that I am talking with an overly developer-focused lens (a-la "you can reimplement Dropbox in a weekend"), but self-hosting blogs outside…

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…