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If it takes more than three tweets to tell, one should a blog post out of that and promote the link on Twitter. Advantages: - Will appear in search engines - Will be archived - Does not flood the timeline of followers
I've found that both have their places, their genres, and their audiences. (The "people who will glance at my tweets" audience is different than the "people who will read a long blog post" audience). As for flooding — I try to make up for it by not posting too much otherwise! :-)
All you need to do is prove that the Japanese high command communicated to America that they were willing to unconditionally surrender *before* we dropped the bombs on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki (as you've inferred), and you'll have a case.
Um, you're barking up the wrong tree here — read my longer thread. I've never inferred that (you're misinterpreting me).
Alex, I, for one, gain so much from well-sourced, thoughtful Twitter threads. I’d also read your blog, but threads like these do a service to humanity.
Yeah #HistoryTwitter makes me feel like I’m back in school or something.
For all Twitter’s problems, expert threads are worth something.
As a counterpoint, I would likely not have read this as a blog post. It's trivial to bundle a single thread and post it elsewhere later. Different media for different people. FWIW, I also tend to write extended threads; I spent a weekend livetweeting Fukushima that way...
This thread is terrific. I do a "Decision to Drop the Bomb" assignment with my students where they are given a number of resources then write 2 paragraphs- one pro- one con. I will use this thread as a new resource
I like the tweets.
Thank you so much for the interesting read. I was never taught about the Soviet invasion.
Besides, twitter’s updated interface collapses long threads to the first one and last two unless you click to expand it. Hardly a flood.
That was an excellent thread , feel free to express your thoughts in detail , as you see appropriate.
I wish you’d do this sort of long thread more often!
My “issue” is that I was attempting to screen-shot all of this (because I don’t teach WWII until May and am on vacation with my family — i.e. away from my laptop) and want to remember all of it! Thank you, Mr. Wallerstein!
I love #HistoryTwitter, beams of light like this clearing the miasma of disinformation, revisionism, and fantasy that seems to have settled over the public discourse.
Would've never found this if it were a blog.
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