The longer a live twitter thread, the more likely it is to be crackpottery (not counting listicle threads).
I haven’t done live ones longer than ~30 I think. Newsletters have gone to ~100 but that’s just numbered essay paragraphs, with lots of editing/rearranging/resequencing.
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The irreversibility of live tweet threading means the person is improvising the argument. This is rarely robust >30 points unless it is an argument they’ve made a LOT in the past.
The one exception is conspiratorial thinking. Unlike logic, red string is sequence agnostic.
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While some people do pre-compose threads and fake live-tweet them, you can usually tell: it lacks the freshness of raw improv.
True live tweetstorming >30 reveals either total mastery of the topic or total crackpottery
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