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Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by rapind »

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…

> twitter thought-leaders

Real question. What even is a twitter thought-leader? An expert of twitter or an expert using twitter, or something else? If it’s an expert using twitter I would assume the way they use it would vary, so this must be something else?

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by LightG »

or, "As a part of our strategy review, we've decided to test Clickbait articles, including the outraged and counter-outraged responses you've come to know and love. All on one platform!!!" ...

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by adamrezich »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #180
dariusj18 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not necessarily just the company’s profit motive. Individual careers require this sort of stuff to be done.

exactly—why is Newsletters still a thing if they're working on Notes now? shouldn't those two be one and the same?

walled gardens planting their own flowers is unsurprising at this point, but when one goes from planting its own flowers to planting competing plants in the same space...

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by mgdlbp »

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…

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)

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by dend »

warkdarrior wrote: post #176
dend wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have your blog make you money if you want to, in whichever way you want to. "Donate content" is just that - when you write long-form on any platform that you have no direct control over, you're handing over the rights to said content. From Twitter's own ToS[0]: > By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the rig…

You lose exclusivity, but you do not lose all other rights. Nothing stops you from posting your content on 10 platforms, even if each one gets a license to your content.

Yes and no. You lose exclusivity, and the ability to manage where and how your content can be used. Once you post it on Twitter, you can see from the ToS that they can basically do what they want with it - plug it into ads, print on billboards, publish alongside other content producers, etc. This is a suboptimal position to put yourself into if you care about your content.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by emadabdulrahim »

the_gipsy wrote: post #157
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…

Medium has turned in such a unusable shitshow now, it should be a lesson for anybody who seriously considers using twitter as a writing platform.

It amazes me how Medium held the shrine for the BEST blogging platform and the best reading experience for a few years around 2015. Which didn't last long as it became one of the worst platform for writers and readers alike.

How can a company shit the bed so bad?!

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by skybrian »

the_gipsy wrote: post #157
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…

Medium has turned in such a unusable shitshow now, it should be a lesson for anybody who seriously considers using twitter as a writing platform.

How does that follow? They are entirely different companies. Twitter will make its own mistakes. (Perhaps Musk-related, who knows?)
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