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Or they could write short, tweet-style posts on a platform like micro.blog so they can still write in a way that aligns with the way their brain works while not having to deal with the way Twitter doesn't (and micro.blog will syndicate to Twitter for them so they needn't lose the Twitter audience).

I strongly suspect the real reason is they just doesn't care enough to spend time trying something different. And that's totally fine! They have absolutely no obligation to change just because a bunch of folks dislike reading tweet threads.

But there are absolutely alternatives out there if folks are interested in checking them out.



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