Hot take: Tweets communicate at near the channel capacity for text-centric messages. But, this has the effect of compelling everyone to communicate superficial variants of the same thing over and over and over again, so we're just immersed in wildly excessive, novel redundancy.
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ahhh, that makes perfect sense


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hmm... doesn't this effect rely on sufficient shared context between the communicating parties, the proportion of eligible people within the network, and the availability of connected paths between those people?
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@visakanv to what extent do you think this medium constrains the possible message space vs. longform -
i’m not totally sure about the assumption that a book (for example) could be reduced to the sum of its tweet-sized nugget parts maybe there is some kind of “emergent meaning” that is above and beyond the most quotable quotes
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interesting but i'm not seeing the causation... that first bit and the last bit seem to be true, but how are they causally related?