I personally find this content delivery method, where a small essay is split into tweet blocks with links and unrelated imagery, very annoying to read and ultimately disrespectful to the reader.
Totally agree, why do people keep using the 'tweet' format for long stories that obviously do not fit? The reading experience is not good at all. Not trying to be negative am genuinely interested in the reasons.
Yeah, this is really pretty obnoxious to read. It also gives the impression that the content is inconsequential if it's just a series of tweets and replies.
Personally I'm not a huge fan because of how spaced out the text content is. So many images breaking the flow of thought. Id rather blocks of text and then a gallery of images. But you get what you get. A string of tweets is better than nothing.
Not sure why people are defending this. It’s not like separating a page into paragraphs. This is so jarring it’s distracting. I don’t know what it is about the format, but separating the piece like this makes it so I’ve completely forgotten what the previous tweet was when I’ve gotten to the next one.
I couldn’t agree more. Why the author would want their long-form writing to resemble a concatenated tweet thread is beyond me; do they assume a short attention span in their audience?
Embedded tweets are on the same level of annoyance. The introduction blurb and connecting sentences could be reduced to an <hr> tag so entire articles become a series of tweets and videos back-to-back.
While an interesting story, my takeaway from this (and I guess, exquisitetweets?) is that coercing long-form stories into Twitter is just really obnoxious.
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