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"It’s interesting how differently the same topic can be explained by someone optimizing for status vs one for clarity."

From: Florent Crivello? @Altimor https://twitter.com/Altimor/status/873648344425299968



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@pg: That's a helpful explanation, because I was confused myself on the distinction. Unfortunately, Twitter users many not be aware.

> This analysis is a little bit weird and I don’t think quite tells the whole story.

It's on Twitter, what did you expect.


> The following was shared as a twitter thread. Here’s the medium version.

I'm wondering if this could have been a much more accessible piece of writing if it wasn't 44 tweets copied-and-pasted together.


> For both, it seems like I read messages in random order and then have to guess at the general gist

I don't use Twitter so I don't know what it does, but if you look at the email, the oldest posts are quoted first, so you just read the message top to bottom like anything else.

And if that's too confusing, there are links to every message in the thread at the bottom.


> That's made up.

It's a stretch but there's a basis for it... https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/538103872322289664?t=BM...


> Here @Peter Cacioppi delivers what is in recent times to most expressive answer!

I'm not seeing a link to go with this?


"...and also that the FT allegations are significant" (my emphasis).

Original Tweet:

"3/But UK--&, I now believe, US--methods need to be explained by #Piketty, else looks pretty bad. Just not CONSEQUENTIAL 4 overall thesis" (again, my emphasis)

https://twitter.com/swinshi/status/470880036233699328

"are significant" vs "not CONSEQUENTIAL" seem like exact opposites to me.

EDIT: missing parenthesis


> Was originally a tweet-storm -> https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296, if anyone is confused by the stream-of-consciousness style.

I don't mean to detract from the point, but this piece would be helped so much by properly fleshing it out into an article. presenting it as a sequence of 92 tweets is combining the worst of both worlds.


When questioned about the change of tone, he answers "Well... a little bit of twitter hype makes a thread go a long way".

https://twitter.com/emnode/status/1531852124501553153


>What is he actually referring to?

I'm guessing this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...


@Sci_Hub twitter:

"Unfortunately, the Verge article about Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has many inaccuracies"

"I'm going to publish a separate blog post explaining the inaccuracies later"

https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/961829490803449856

https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/961836113731072003


> It was reported in Italy (obviously in Italian) https://twitter.com/Paolo_Tumolo/status/1237018245552582657/....

First: I hate twitter.

Second: in a follow up he seems to say (using google translate):

> It is EXACTLY what I meant: they charge the deaths to other pathologies present. I don't see many other possible explanations.

So he doesn't have proof or even a statistic to point to? He just doesn't see an alternative explanation? Is the newspaper he is working for yellow press?


Relevant Twitter thread: "You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?"

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1014267515696922624


> This seems like a made up narrative

It's not a made-up narrative. It's something that individual Twitter users can see for themselves just by reading Twitter.


This is not the exact title used in the article itself, but it is the comment the author made when posting it to Twitter:

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/939949021996769280

As such I've used this title in preference - I think it's accurate and gives a better idea of what the article says.


> Could you provide an example

Did you look at the linked tweets?


Some discussion from the author's twitter post: https://twitter.com/spudowiar/status/1005551128233299968

The twitter thread is worth reading, Yann responds to some of the questions raised here.

The original tweet that this is in reply to makes far more sense
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