The tragedy of Twitter in a sentence.https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1124684193840214016 …
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Replying to @joaoeira
I think for a lot of people this may be a benefit: it tricks them into getting started writing. 'Just one short little tweet - well, I forgot to mention X... and Y... and of course Z...' Once you have an awkwardly long Twitter thread, you have the notes for a real post.
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Replying to @gwern
I wonder if the status of blogs was higher whether those same people that get into making threads wouldn't write blog posts just as well. And even if more people do make threads than they otherwise would, what's their impact? Those threads drift away into the aether quick.
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If a tree falls with no one to listen to, etc etc. Just today your Spaced Repetition post was on The Browser. How many threads have even 10% of that lifetime?
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Replying to @joaoeira
Where do you think a lot of my own writings start? Discussions which eventually ascend into pages. (I even have a rule of thumb: "The Rule of 3: if I spend >10m explaining something 3 times, it's time to write it up.") Social media: gateway drug to writing. Parents, watch out!
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I started blogging because tired of repeating myself on discussion forums...
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