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Re: Twitter Notes

#61

Post by onychomys » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

simlevesque wrote: post #32

I love that the mobile website forces me to use the app and now then you click a Note in the app it opens it in the browser.

Even better, if you've blocked the built-in browser in the app (via the app's settings) and you try to open a Note there, nothing happens, not even a message saying it can't be opened.

Re: Twitter Notes

#62

Post by paxys » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Is it "Twitter Write" or "Twitter Notes"? The branding is already confusing, and it hasn't even launched yet.

Re: Twitter Notes

#63

Post by Bigpet » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #48

Apparently the Twitter app (android) doesn't support them. Nice.

The desktop web version also doesn't seem to support it for me. Just shows me "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else."

Re: Twitter Notes

#64

Post by ghaff » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #45

I get why they have been working on this (ppl's thread posting out of control) but making longform posts content live on / inside the platform reaks of Facebook walled garden, or Medium etc. Should be encouraging ppl to have blogs or post on urls and just link to them. I dunno, it's annoying direction.

That ship has sailed unfortunately. Most people are going to post in walled gardens--and, if Twitter is that walled garden, I'd much prefer they encourage longer form posting than long threads.

Re: Twitter Notes

#65

Post by omoikane » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #15

In the GIF, they display that the tool is available under twitter.com/write (which, obviously wouldn't be public yet unless I was invited to participate, which I wasn't). If you go there now, there is a Twitter account there already (a private "Writers Group"). Will that Twitter account disappear now with this change?

This could have been avoided if twitter had distinct URL schemes for user accounts versus site functions (like how mastodon has /@user versus /path), or it could have been avoided if they reserved enough words early on to avoid this collision. Now I wonder how they would reclaim the paths that were parked by early users. Pay these users to rename their accounts, perhaps?

Re: Twitter Notes

#66

Post by layer8 » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #40

dgs_sgd wrote: post #4

I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further. As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.

> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.

You’d have loved inline quoting on Usenet.

Re: Twitter Notes

#67

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:52 PM UTC

cube00 wrote: post #51

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #47

Aside, why is this shared in a very very long weird GIF and not a video. (can't pause/seek)

I was curious about this too and thought it must be a massive GIF. However it's not actually a GIF, it's an MP4 video[1], I wonder why it's mislabelled as a GIF. [1]: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/FV3mdpEXoAIrkA1.mp4

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Re: Twitter Notes

#68

Post by rlopezcc » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

cube00 wrote: post #60

Now that Twitter have decided the solution to long form content is a link off the main thread hopefully more creators will feel more comfortable to instead link to their own blog rather then to "Notes". This could be a very positive thing for creators to gain back more control over their brand and content.

They will probably make Notes seamless and cool inside the twitter app and external links slow and clumsy.

Re: Twitter Notes

#69

Post by suyash » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:56 PM UTC

Idea is good however implementation is horrible specially on desktop web. The narrow width of the content makes it hard to read, not to mention all the distractions on left and right side of the page. They should make the notes full screen without distractions if they want people to read them.

Re: Twitter Notes

#70

Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 5:56 PM UTC

sumy23 wrote: post #54

dgs_sgd wrote: post #4

I welcome this. I always hated the long multi-tweet essays and have often just given up on reading them, especially when I'm not logged in I can't even make it to the end before twitter blocks me from scrolling further. As of now it doesn't look like you can reply to a note with another note? That might go a long way for improving debate and discussion.

I just tried reading some of the things written by Twitter's test authors. I immediately missed the old format. For one, the old format forces succinct points. There isn't any fluff in a Twitter thread. First four paragraphs in the sample I read: > Hello. Hi. Do you have a moment to talk about porgs? > Yes. Porgs, the cute things seen in Star Wars Episodes VII and VIII. > These. > (Image of porg) > Many people might…

I think it's likelier that your first four quoted lines would have been compressed into a single tweet, including an image, followed by the second one.