Experimenting with listing substantive twitter threads on my website. I think twitter is a really powerful way to 80/20 essays you want to write but never will, but I'm often held back by the feeling that it's so ephemeral. colah.github.io
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There's reluctance to "spoil" a beautiful potential essay, even though I know I'll never actually write it. (My latest essay scratch file, started earlier this year, is 50 pages of like 20 starts of essays. :/ )
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Curious if this will cause me to write more twitter threads!
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(It's really more something like getting 25% of the value for 1% of the effort. Less of the total value, but an amazing 25:1 multiplier!)
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Why not just show the content in thread form on your site?That way you're not redirecting folks to Twitter and have no worries about the data disappearing for whatever reason (I've seen a fair share of internet personalities delete their twitter account in the heat of the moment)
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There's really no technical reason for social platforms to feel so transitory (there's business reasons of course).
I'm working on a project to address this head on - to counteract how online experiences have become intentionally ephemeral.
Open source release coming soon.
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