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Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by bombcar »

dend wrote: post #121
88913527 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still need to engage with the major social networks to build up traffic to your own domain name. Otherwise, posting on your blog is like talking to a brick wall. You can choose where you publish, but there's no escaping the leveraging of existing audiences.

My earlier comment is not contradictory to this statement. Indeed, you need to be on social media sites to reach a broader audience, but you can post links to your content that is external to those sites rather than giving it up wholesale within the network.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE is the term

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by bombcar »

NearAP wrote: post #111
rchaud wrote: post #105

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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 But they can track which tweets are being clicked, the IP of the person and a whole bunch of things even when you're not logged in. >> and how their network of connections/follows But that's the problem right there. If you force people to create an account to read tweets, they might do so but they won't follow anybody or follow very few people and twee…

The fact this "login bullshit" appeared right about the time Apple started cracking down on privacy is very "sus" as the kids say.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by vxNsr »

robocat wrote: post #256
nmilo wrote: post #243

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You already have a "dynamic slider control" for everything you read, it lives in your brain and it's called "skimming." Well-written articles already expose the essential point in an easy-to-find way, and I couldn't imagine what a "give me the tl;dr now" button would do to our already ruined attention spans. The tl;dr might exist for some articles, but most of the time, the essential point requires a lot of build-up…

To paraphrase you: tl;dr: skim-read good articles, dummy. Longer version: here’s a thoughtless snark ignoring that you said you wanted longreads and ignoring you wanted to dial complexity to 11. Society’s tuned to custard, get off my lawn. Extended version: I really like to show I am the smartest, most condescending, person in the forum. Let me state the obvious. Nobody listens or uses their brains these days, becaus…

Just gonna say that your original comment definitely reads like the tone that you’re pretending to have here, so it might actually just be you.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by razzimatazz »

I definitely will need a "Jump to the recipe" button for Twitter notes.

You've found an interesting topic and decided to use that to practice your medium-long form writing - but have you actually discovered anything unique worth discussing?

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by fercircularbuf »

fullshark wrote: post #173
lupire wrote: post #123

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Government, universities, hobbyists. That's how we did it the first time.

The tools are available to them right now, nothing's stopping them except the fact that people want to spend their time in walled gardens.

I can't help but think that walled gardens are attractive places to spend time, not that people want to spend their time in them.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by notatoad »

dend wrote: post #204
notatoad wrote: post #202

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i think it's pretty easy to see the simplest motivation for this project: all the twitter users who post screenshots of the iOS notes app. they literally gave it the same name. is this better than a screenshot of the notes app? IMHO the answer is a pretty obvious yes. how it compares to various other blogging platforms isn't super relevant. it's not a blog, it's a feature for people who are already on twitter and alr…

I would generally agree, _except_ with the fact then this just defeats the entire point of Twitter - it might as well become the next Medium then. Which, let's be realistic, can be a strategy too - become a content publisher rather than an aggregator of links and short opinions. But then again, that's not why I am personally on Twitter. YMMV.

again, people already accomplish exactly this thing by posting screenshots of text. but that's less accessible, less searchable, and an overall poorer experience than letting people post actual text instead of screenshotting it first.

and if you don't personally use twitter, i'm not sure how qualified you are to judge whether or not something defeats the purpose of twitter.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by phendrenad2 »

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…

> not the best thing for those that write

I disagree. I think this is mostly meant to steal market share from other walled-gardens such as Medium. People who write on self-hosted blogs and the like will continue to do so.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by jay_kyburz »

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…

If I were a writer I would post my work to make it easy for twitter users to read, but I would sprinkle the writing with enticing links back to my own hosted site.

Re: Twitter Notes

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Post by amitmina »

Twitter wants to introduce everything without solving fundamental distribution problems. The constraint writing is what is powerful about Twitter but now also wants to have a voice and blogs. They really need to be bought out and injected with intelligence
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