It's Twitter. You were expecting a nuanced, carefully planned and well thought out essay?
This tweetstorm by Cory is one of the reasons why I keep trying to persuade people to get a blog (again) rather than rambling at length via tweets. A blog post demands at least a minimum of planning and upfront thought about what you want to say, as opposed to being a stream-of-conscious sequence of bite-sized quotes, hopefully connected. Now perhaps some people do plan their tweetstorms carefully, but the medium hardly encourages that or lends itself to a process of vetting, rewriting and editing.
Twitter has its uses. Long (for some value of 'long' here!) form writing is not that.
While I don't disagree in general, worth pointing out for anyone who hasn't used Twitter "threads" that you can now write all your threaded tweets before posting the first one - so it's not quite as bad as when you had to write a tweet, send, reply to it, send, repeat etc
This tweetstorm by Cory is one of the reasons why I keep trying to persuade people to get a blog (again) rather than rambling at length via tweets. A blog post demands at least a minimum of planning and upfront thought about what you want to say, as opposed to being a stream-of-conscious sequence of bite-sized quotes, hopefully connected. Now perhaps some people do plan their tweetstorms carefully, but the medium hardly encourages that or lends itself to a process of vetting, rewriting and editing.
Twitter has its uses. Long (for some value of 'long' here!) form writing is not that.