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Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by fknorangesite »

rmason wrote: post #148
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…

What's wrong with linking to your blog? Twitter was once explained to me as short form blogging which I thought at the time was absurd but I kind of get it now. The problem is when you try to be all things to all people you fail. I'd so much like someone like Elon Musk to take over Twitter. In the case of Musk I trust his judgement over the team running Twitter now. Can you imagine a group of two dozen people working…

> What's wrong with linking to your blog?

Nothing, except that no one will click on your link.

Re: Twitter Notes

#182

Post by toephu2 »

NearAP wrote: post #90

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…

> Twitter can still display Ads to me irrespective of whether I'm logged in or not.

Twitter only shows ads to logged in users.

Re: Twitter Notes

#183

Post by Qub3d »

tern wrote: post #175
lamontcg wrote: post #92

Earlier 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…

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, which now makes most of their revenue)

Re: Twitter Notes

#184

Post by hackandtrip »

I do wonder how this plays with the acquisition. IIRC, one of the merge agreement was for Twitter to avoid drastic changes that could impact the value of the company - this seems pretty big to me.

Re: Twitter Notes

#185

Post by lr »

Alternative headline: After 12 years, Twitter finally decides to do something with Posterous

Re: Twitter Notes

#187

Post by rg111 »

lepetitchef wrote: post #186

How to see this feature. I don't see Twitter Notes/Write in my sidebar.

It's currently in Alpha. All users can't write now. And one cannot even view the notes outside of certain regions.

Re: Twitter Notes

#188

Post by comment500 »

Interesting feature, looks like it may be an alternative to writing big long tweet threads all in one go with a "@threadreaderapp unroll" tweet at the end.

The main difference with this seems to be, you can't link to or highlight individual sections within the Note, if quote tweeting or replying. Perhaps this is a good thing, to prevent parts of what's written being too easily taken out of context.

One downside may be that the entire Note would be targeted for terms of service violations, should they occur. At present, if a tweet in a multi-tweet thread breaks the rules, it can be excised without affecting the rest of what's written.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by masukomi »

fknorangesite wrote: post #181
rmason wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with linking to your blog? Twitter was once explained to me as short form blogging which I thought at the time was absurd but I kind of get it now. The problem is when you try to be all things to all people you fail. I'd so much like someone like Elon Musk to take over Twitter. In the case of Musk I trust his judgement over the team running Twitter now. Can you imagine a group of two dozen people working…

> What's wrong with linking to your blog? Nothing, except that no one will click on your link.

i don't see that it's functionally any different than what was displayed in that gif. In both cases there's a card to the longer content that needs to be clicked on.

If your argument is that no-one will click on the card then twitter notes will fare no better because it's literally the same presentation.

Re: Twitter Notes

#190

Post by holler »

dariusj18 wrote: post #26
adamrezich wrote: post #17

interesting how Twitter is evolving from a 140-char microblog platform into a mishmash of different vaguely related and tenuously connected services/features: - main timeline - direct messages - Spaces (audio chatrooms) - Communities (sub-timelines) - Newsletters (this still exists? will it, if Notes gains traction?) - and now Notes and probably more I forgot. I wonder if they'll eventually go full-circle and add a P…

Every walled garden needs to plant their own flowers. It's an unfortunate side effect of profit motive and keeping people on the platform rather than integrations and openness.

Agree, but I don't think it necessarily has to be that way.

All of these social sites have a core competency/use case, but once they start tacking on features as an effect of the profit motive, it starts to dilute the experience.

Working on my own site and planning to keep it strictly focused on the core value prop.

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