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#282Cant see any of the notes because it wants me to login. As a third party why would I want to post on a platform that hides my content from every one that isn't in your walled garden?
Why not just write on my wordpress blog and then post that on twitter like I have always been doing? I get the twitter audience and the non twitter audience.
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#283My 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…
> Recall the story with Medium - yes, you get broader reach with less effort, but at the cost of giving up control of your content.
Exactly and no Medium seems to be dying, I haven't read anything on that site in a few years since they added popups asking you to login before you can read.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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…
> I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book
Is this "learning"? You sure get entertained, quick-and-easy-to-digest facts, good for short attention spans, and 5-10 minutes later you go back to whatever else you were doing. Or hop on the next "educative" twitter thread or somesuch. But have you actually learned something?
If I ask you a week later to summarize your new insights, will you be able to? Will you even remember that you read about this? I sometimes find an old tab in a browser window that I had forgotten to close a while back. I skim through the contents, oh right! That thing! That was interesting! Turns out, a twitter thread, barely a week old, about something interesting, "I really learned something!", but I had already forgotten about it again, and if somebody had asked, I'd mainly have answered "Oh yeah there was this thing, don't remember the details, or the conclusion, or anything really, but I think I read something the other day", which is just hot air.
We should not treat such twitter threads as educational content. They are short-term entertainment, and good at that, but in essence not very different from a tiktok clip of some girl dancing on the beach.
If you really want to learn something, you need to invest time. By reading a book, by discussing with knowledgeable people, by trying something out yourself and/or trying to put your own words down. This takes energy, patience, time and can be frustrating at times. But twitter threads can't solve this for you.
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#286While 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…
Twitter doesn't care about a pair of anonynmous eyeballs not visiting their site anymore. It's not Google. Twitter's ad targeting depends on knowing what a user looks at, and how their network of connections/follows lines up with other user segments.
> Twitter's ad targeting depends on knowing what a user looks at, and how their network of connections/follows lines up with other user segments.
I never understood this argument for tracking users, google and twitter already know what the user is looking at as they are serving them the content directly.
Why don't they base ads on what I'm looking at now? If I am looking at posts about dogs why not try to sell me something for my dog?
Instead they seem to want to know what I was doing last week so they can serve me ads based on that, but there is no point in showing me adverts for shoes this week as I already bought them last week!
My point is as some one who works in advertising it's more effective to target people on the content they consume today rather than base your targeting off of data you gathered last week, by then its too late.
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#287My 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…
Most blog content from companies, sad to say, are created to boost the authority of your domain in a SEO sense. I.e. if you got good content people search for and read your domain will appear higher. Posting to another platform, without a canonical link, is counterintuitive.
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#288https://twitter.com/i/notes/1539613004370788352 https://twitter.com/i/notes/1535469588846092288 https://twitter.com/i/notes/1534297736597618689
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#289Eh...finally? Like 10 years after its competitor weibo.com? Says a lot about the culture of Twitter.
I'm pretty sure it has been a limitation by design, and not a technical challenge they needed to solve.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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…
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