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I feel quite the converse..

..I accept twitter is here to stay, but always thought it was a a pointless snippet-fest good for nothing aside from millions being able to pile on praise/social-shaming.

Looking at this thread, it actually makes sense for once. It's a successive sequence of info & pictures - that follow a coherent thread. Great, just like any other blog.

However, if you're interested in any particular paragraph, you can click and see a whole discussion on "just that paragraph"

Not for one moment saying twitter's won me over, but it provides a cleaner way of annotating a story than any other platform I'm aware of.

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I actually agree with this, Twitter is far from my favorite way to consume content but I actually really enjoyed the format that this was presented in.

I hadn't yet clicked on the link, but as soon as I read your comment I knew exactly who the author was going to be.

Foone's posts are the only content I enjoy reading on Twitter. He's mastered the format.

That’s an interesting way to look at it, and it got me thinking about how one might implement a blogging platform where discussion is more like comments in the margins of a book than some footnotes at the back of the book.

> if you're interested in any particular paragraph, you can click and see a whole discussion on "just that paragraph"

Only if you're subscribed.

Medium did that. I don't know if it still works, I haven't seen a medium post in anything other than elinks in a while.

> Not for one moment saying twitter's won me over, but it provides a cleaner way of annotating a story than any other platform I'm aware of.

Medium? It seems specially built for that.

It's not really the same. Medium turns every comment into its own full-fledged blog post. That's a lot of unbounded space if the restrictions of the format are what let you get the words out.

Mastodon does threads like Twitter with a little more room without most of the downsides. I've thought about setting up a managed Mastodon instance (with masto.host) to put under my domain to use as a sort of public outliner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner

That's what most people seem to use Twitter for anyway.

I wonder how long before there is a WordPress theme that mimics these tweetstorms?

meh. Tweet Stream of Consciousness Processors as a Service are the next new thing. A little ML, some FAAS handwaviness, and voila: Utterances as an Article as a Service for all!

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