Saying something in an essay gets you trolled less than saying the same thing in a tweet. Partly because an essay has a sort of reading-comprehension CAPTCHA, and partly because there's no easy retweet-with-comment for an essay.
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I find that my blog posts (~ essays) result in fewer *immediate* misunderstandings than tweets, but more in the long term. Are you sure you're not just seeing a similar effect, i.e. that the trolling is spread over a longer time period since readers are spread over a longer time?
That is an interesting question. Possibly. But I think people misunderstand you for different reasons than they misunderstand me.
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Right, we're definitely misunderstood in different ways. I meant simply that tweets and essays can have significantly different temporal exposure patterns and a difference in peak troll rate might not necessarily indicate a difference in lifetime trolls.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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