Was thinking about this editable-threads-not-editable-tweets thing again today...
And find myself thinking that if someone were building Twitter from scratch today, they might want to make Threads
be its own thing that's different from just a series of same-author replies.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1229910373765177344 …
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Twitter has done this slightly in the UI: • when viewing, prioritizes all being shown in order, leaving replies til later • interface for composing a thread all at once • author gets "Add another tweet" btn at the bottom, which launches this thread composer not reply-composerpic.twitter.com/CfkeUOS7Ga
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted metamitya[notribe]
My thought today was inspired in part by playing around with
@metamitya's app knovigator, which seems to sort of have this (it calls them quests, I think?)https://twitter.com/metamitya/status/1246555934756876289 …Malcolm 🌎cean added,
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This is part of a much deeper exploration I've had for some time which is like, what kind of relationship can two tweets have to each other? Currently it's basically: - reply - QT (quote-tweet) but there are many implicit things those official relationships can each mean!
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Malcolm 🌎cean Retweeted Ḟreyjạ
Man. Okay, just thinking out loud here. What is the meaning of a reply? Moreso than anything else, whether thread or conversation, it represents the CONTEXT of a tweet. See something QT'd or RT'd? Click through to see its context. eg
"which reason?"https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1135762331202277377 …Malcolm 🌎cean added,
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@balajis was the first to tip me off to context being super important :D
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