Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
I don&#x27;t think your personal reading comfort is the focus of whoever is writing threads on Twitter. Blogs are long form content, with structure and chapters and long sentences. Twitter threads are a collection of short, abbreviated thoughts that center around a subject.<p>These two rarely compete. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever seen a Twitter thread that would be better if it were a blog, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen blogs that I&#x27;d rather see as a twitter thread.<p>If you&#x27;re a blogger or website designer then you have entirely different goals than the people writing threads on Twitter. People here moan all the time about things being a Twitter thread instead of a blog but nobody cares about what you prefer. Twitter threads are the result of someone on social media deciding to talk for a bit more than one post, not some predetermined article someone wants to write. There&#x27;s no long draft being queued one by one, posts are told separately.<p>Expecting people to set up a blog and link to it is like asking a friend who&#x27;s telling you a story to stop and write the whole thing down because all of the unnecessary side details are distracting you. It&#x27;s unnecessary, rude and if they went along it&#x27;d detract from the story being told. If you dislike the way content is brought out on Twitter, don&#x27;t go to Twitter. You can block it in your Pihole, Adblocker, hosts file, you name it. Don&#x27;t tell others how to tell their stories, that&#x27;s not your call to make.<p>I&#x27;d prefer more people I follow to be on open alternatives such as Mastodon, but I&#x27;m not going to write blogs about advicing people why Twitter is bad and Mastodon is better.