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Dan Romero@dwr
2/11/2023

What do people think of the Twitter long tweet implementation? https://twitter.com/summerlinark/status/1624083249223053314

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Zach Terrell@zachterrell
2/11/2023

“Why?”

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elesel.eth@lsl
2/11/2023

It feels odd but is a strongly symbolic move towards healthier trends we wish to see socially (ie. less bite-sized thinking)

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Peter Rood@pdr
2/11/2023

If I were Chief Twit, I would have put Show more text above retweet button so accidental taps result in more engagement

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welter.eth@fun
2/11/2023

i like it, but i dont think you can post multiple images/videos without making it a thread, sad

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Bethany - countessellis.eth@ellis
2/11/2023

Ugh, honestly. I’m not against longer formats on it, but when it’s expanded, it feels busy.

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Joe Blau@joeblau
2/11/2023

This is my response every time I see one.

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Chris Carella@ccarella
2/11/2023

I like this better than threads but if you are going to go full 4K word post I think you need some formatting tools, even if that is just markdown. Headings, links and images seem key to making a good reading experience.

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MC10 | Bankless Consulting 🎯@mc10
2/11/2023

Bad. I like screenshot essays. They should improve on those imho.

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wizzard@wz
2/11/2023

they lose a key feature of threads - ability to comment/qrt specific parts of the post. medium tried to do this but threads are still better imho

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Sam Iglesias@sam
2/11/2023

I think among the available options it’s pretty rational and honest. The slight confusion could be whether or why the client is truncating what seems like a normal tweet.

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Tayyab@tayyab
2/11/2023

What I’ve come to learn is that all of these feature changes introduce new metas on Twitter. Someone will figure out a way to make these engaging, and everyone will follow. Users are ones doing innovation, Twitter is just setting guardrails.

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2/11/2023

Any indication of how it will impact the algorithm? Threads were known to get boosted attention from the algorithm. Personally, I’d rather see the full thought in one post.

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Mark Carey@markcarey
2/11/2023

I like the idea of adding long form content. However, my preferred design would be keep the the current tweet field short, but add 2 optional fields: title + long-post. Filling these triggers a "read post" link, similar to "show more", but opens the long-form post for proper reading. The main feeds remain the same.

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2/12/2023

Better than threads.

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MetaBetties NFT@metabetties
2/12/2023

TL;DR and I’m only 69% kidding

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MxVoid@mxvoid
2/12/2023

Looks and feels kind of meh. It also takes the micro out of microblogging. Feels like a tacked-on feature that doesn’t have a strong use case vs. a link to a Medium post or even a thread.

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Rohit Kulshreshtha@rohit
2/12/2023

Now we just need a chatgpt summarize feature built-in.

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tomato.eth@thefaketomato
2/12/2023

I have no problem with tweets being longer. I have a big problem with new features only being available to paying subscribers.

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Adrienne 🌱@adrienne
2/12/2023

I think I’m in the minority but 👎👎👎 I like to use twitter as a scanning or indexing service. I want speed and breadth. I want authenticity. I don’t want depth.

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Scarlet Death @scarletdeath
2/12/2023

I tried it a few times today and it's still hard to get into that long-form writers voice while staring at a Twitter UI. Thoughts are broke into small unfiltered paragraphs. Almost felt like the character limit was keeping me on my toes.

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maurelian@maurelian
2/12/2023

Well, I just clicked Show More (two words) on this tweet, in order to reveal the last 3 words. https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1624600692773240832

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dylsteck.eth@dylsteck
2/12/2023

not a fan of the show more button— if they want to support long form content I feel like there are better ways of going about it one app I like a lot is typefully and it would be great if your Twitter profile could have collections of longer form posts in a more suitable view(more like an article)

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Mario Romero Zavala @wario
2/12/2023

There is something important being lost along with the 280 char constraint. True that threads got around it anyway, but not really as engagement would go down on every extra tweet. Not very optimistic about how this will turn out.

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Paurav@paurav
2/12/2023

Adding 1 point to what already people added that formatting is must. Would prefer 280 over long form bcz - good contend mostly (95% chances) get read irrespective of thread/article - I prefer articles over books, threads over articles to clear mind whether to spend more time on it

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tim reilly@tldr
2/12/2023

To me it's starting to feel like an "article". Twitter's constraints used to force "threads" to serve this function. In my experience, threads feel like they lower the barrier-to-consumption. Not saying whether all this is good or bad, but with a bunch of long-form posts I'll start to feel like I'm browsing "The News"

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j3@j3
2/12/2023

Kudos to them on tightening the line heights and paragraph spacing

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Tony D’Addeo @deodad
2/12/2023

don’t like it bite sized statements / responses seems like a deep part of the structure that makes the Twitter dynamic go be careful to mess with the primitives