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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Exploratory threads might be an exception. You can easily mine rich insight veins for more than 30 tweets if you don't need a coherent structure. If only Twitter had a better UI for viewing branching threads. Then you could use subthreads to separate lines of attack...

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Some smart friends who have worked on this stuff have convinced me that branching UIs are almost never the answer. If you think you need branching, you typically need something else.
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You've been the most difficult blogger for me to get up to speed with. So much content and so many layers of webs. I appreciate the style, but I spent a while digging wondering where to best "start"
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