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>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full threads even when logged out. >you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear. I've never encountered interspersed comments on Twitter threads. they're visible the way they're visible in the thread reader website, one aft…
I don't need to see an avatar, date and username above each sentence of a blog post. Twitter monologue threads are dumb, the whole premise of the service is to write under 280 characters (used to be 140).
Sometimes a thread simply evolves out of a conversation.
Sometimes one comment just leads to another.
And sometimes it's helpful, useful, and/or interesting to have individual sentences or paragraphs of a thread split into their own items, so that it becomes more clear what specific parts of a discussion are especially engaging, confusing, interesting, etc. People can comment or respond to specific parts of the thread rather than the whole thing.
For writers who are accustomed to either global/overall feedback, or none at all, this can be enlightening. It's about as close to the experience of giving a live lecture or presentation as exists online, in that in a live presentation people can also respond or react to specific moments as they occur.