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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline 8 Jul 2019
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      I have a partial blog post about parenting that’s been sitting in my drafts folder for around a year. This morning, I looked at it to see if I could make it a Twitter thread instead. Maybe? But I think it would be better as a blog post.

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    2. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline 8 Jul 2019
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      OTOH, I have so many more minutes every day where I can write bite-sized things on my phone than I have minutes of focused time on my computer. I haven’t figured out how to write blog posts on my phone incrementally, which is a lot of why I’ve been experimenting with Twitter.

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    3. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline 8 Jul 2019
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      If anyone wants to offer me any wisdom on Twitter threads vs. blog posts, I’d love to have it.

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    4. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 8 Jul 2019
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      Replying to @diviacaroline

      Twitter threads are more linear than blog posts. Unless you want to go full @vgr your one blog post might be 3-4 threads

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    5. Divia Eden‏ @diviacaroline 9 Jul 2019
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      Can you expand on this? In a lot of ways Twitter seems less linear to me, but maybe that’s what you mean by “full @vgr”? I want to understand this medium better.

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    6. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 9 Jul 2019
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      I find Twitter threads tend to reinforce a single argument or narrative point. It’s hard to say “here are 3 arguments in favor of Position X and two against it, so actually here’s a compromise position” due to every tweet being quotable and the chance of losing reader’s attention

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    7. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam 9 Jul 2019
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      Replying to @calcsam @diviacaroline @vgr

      folks like @vgr and @visakanv who tend to care more about publishing interesting or intriguing thoughts than following any particular linear thread (and whose audiences understand this) break this rule regularly

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Jul 2019
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      Replying to @calcsam @diviacaroline @visakanv

      I do it by accident though, while visa does it on purpose, so his threads are a much better model than mine. My threads are basically failed/non-starter blog posts, and my frayed/tangled threads are failed serialization attempts due to actual incoherence in thoughts

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