I'm introducing @QiaochuYuan to twitter, and I'm like "find some meta-rationality people to follow in the list of who @utotranslucence is following", & also follow @visakanv & @GRITCULT to learn threading. "Seriously, this is important for understanding the power of the medium."
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
Then read this lovely doc:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1094684057173016581 …
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
And make sure to actually see the meta-threada at the bottom:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/986554117790228480 …
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvInteresting conversation with a writer friend earlier about the fragmentation of information. We both agreed that fragmentation isn't actually a bad thing - what's missing & needed is better threading. Twitter threads are a specific instantiation of a solution to bigger problemShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Malcolm 🙃cean
And this thread of mine is probably overkill for your current level of understanding, but it kind of explains when you might want to quote-tweet versus retweet-&-replyhttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1109321523599499264 …
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
And then—don't worry about it too much and just play with it:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1079689685595607040 …
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvThis is actually a FANTASTIC description of a VERY natural human behavior – "fiddle with it and see what happens". Programmers do this. Musicians do this. All of our tools should be optimized to allow us to do this better, because it's the most natural way to make sense of things https://twitter.com/wateringplamts/status/1079297184766390272 …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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How do I thread existing tweetstorms? Is it possible, or do I have to thread as I go in the first place?
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
You can make a new storm that embeds previous tweets in any order, but you can't later change which tweet is a reply to which other tweet. (Visa laments this here
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvA thing that frustrates me about@Twitter is that I can't edit old threads. I don't actually need to edit individual tweets - I'd just like to be able to easily splice existing tweets into existing threads, move them about, reorder them, etc. Lots of potential value hereShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
This was an amazing introduction to Twitter and threading, thank you! I could feel my Twitter ontology shifting in real time reading @visakanv in several pleasantly surprising ways.
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
Mmmm yeah. I've been enjoying seeing the notifications of various favorites of yours as you traverse old threads I've been in :)https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1091509269621497856 …
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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvevery tweet that is on my web of threads is also somewhere in my brain every time one of you favorites one of those tweets, and I see it, it feels like that part of my brain lights up, too it feels "percolate-y", like little lights branching out and spreading around pic.twitter.com/6y7q7FpsTbShow this thread0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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