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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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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If anyone wants to offer me any wisdom on Twitter threads vs. blog posts, I’d love to have it.
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Twitter threads are more linear than blog posts. Unless you want to go full your one blog post might be 3-4 threads
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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 ”?
I want to understand this medium better.
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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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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


