Twitter threads have terrible usability
I rarely post Twitter threads and grudgingly read the interesting ones that cross my feed.
Why? Because threads have terrible usability.
Twitter doesn't provide much support for writing threads, which often makes using specialized editing tools a necessity. But even then, there's significant friction that distracts from writing.
As a reader, consuming a thread feels like an obstacle course at each step of which I bump into buttons, icons, frames, and other user interface junk. I have to scroll, scroll, and scroll. Some authors make this worse by not numbering the individual tweets, or not giving an indication of how long a thread is and how much text is left to read.
It's incredible how many hoops authors are willing to jump through to cram long-from content into a glorified tweet, and how much readers are willing to endure not to click a link and consume elsewhere text optimized for reading.
Long-form belongs to blogs.
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