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Though not universally the case, I like to quote @foone's thread on why he publish on Twitter and not a blog post:

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128

(Threader: https://threader.app/thread/1066547670477488128)

I buy into that explanation. In short it implies a few things:

1) It's not about you the reader it's about me

2) I don't intend to have so many tweets but after writing 1 or 2 I am inspired in a way that keeps me going and I end up at 20.

3) I have not figured out a way to channel my creative energy if I am faced with something that feels like work rather than a reaction or to fill an immediate creative inspiration.

Genuine tip then: write your story on Twitter, then copy paste the compiled story from Threader into a proper blog post and replace your tweets with a link to the blog post. Problem solved!

People expect more from blog posts. Its ok for a Twitter thread to be rambling, to backtrack and clarify the premise halfway through, but this is not accepted in a blog post, which needs to be structured more like a traditional essay and it needs to be edited. Someone without the attention-span or patience to write a blog post in the first place is certainly not going to go back and revise/edit a perfectly good tweet-storm just to make someone on HN happy.

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