RFC: The fate of longform writing in a post-twitter world
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Longform is Lindy. Tweetstorms have average lifetime of 3 days, if I'm being generous.
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See for rhyming history: the fate of classical music in a post-Beatles world. People still do it, Sony still sells classical albums, universities still have symphony orchestras and endowed chairs of Oboe Performance, but the whole thing is arcane.
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Sometimes Twitter functions as a trailer for articles on traditional media (atlantic, nature, wired); academic pubs, and Medium type sites






