Stop Writing Twitter Threads
No.<p>I don’t find Twitter threads hard to follow. You click on them, you get a sequence of 280-character tweets, with the little reply&#x2F;retweet&#x2F;like&#x2F;share buttons between each block of text. This is not at all onerous to follow.<p>Compare to your typical recipe blog or Fandom (.com) site. Is that any better? I’d say the recipe blogs are and sites like Fandom are far worse, because the page is constantly trying to hijack the browser to show ads. Recipe sites are barely usable these days.<p>The 280-character limit also has benefits. Writers know that tweets will be viewed in isolation, so they try to make each tweet as coherent as possible, individually. This style of writing is bland and simplistic but also clear. You can’t say it in 280 characters, you rewrite it.<p>I wrote this comment as if it were a Twitter thread. Each paragraph fits in 280 characters—and one fits exactly! This dry style may remind you of the papers you had to read or write in college, but I appreciate the clarity.<p>Twitter encourages clarity and brevity, and I like it.