"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They got ADHD [0 and following tweets] and say that tweeting works for them but composing a blog post kills their concentration. So it is either Twitter or nothing at all. In that case I definitely prefer Twitter because Foone's stuff is always very interesting [1].

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20081056

[0] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/foone

Judge not lest ye be judged; I have come to understand this to say that the practice of judgement – the perception of people and the world through the lens of judgement, the production of judgemental thoughts – it can turn on a person so that we will then tend to assume that we are being judged. And that it matters.

Conversely, we can also produce the correct statement that we are witnessing twitter being used as a long form blogging format.

I can also produce a judgement of myself: Maybe I’m seeing your comment through the lens of misunderstanding. And maybe I am just yet another person who thinks this is a conversation and that around it a society may be witnessed.

Rather like the object presented which is presented along with the sequence of letters “lock”. It opens up and we see its inner nature: Not a lock.

Foone isn't "just another long form Twitter blogger", he is one of the originators of this style and one of its most prolific users.

foone is a national treasure. That he uses twitter this way should make us reconsider our initial negative opinion of that style.

Yes. Foone tweet storms can be irritating to read but if you come in on the middle of one it can be fun to read it and keep refreshing until Foone posts another tweet.

I feel like most of the best Twitter users use long form threads. I've only just started following these kind of accounts but the information they add to the platform has been incredible.