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by sweden 2866 days ago
It certainly is. I can't possibly fathom what goes on people's minds that leads them to think Twitter is a great platform for information sharing.

It makes me sad that humanity gave up blogging for tweeting. I can't think of a more unsuitable platform for making this kind of posts: it limits the number of characters, the UI is awful for continuity of posts, the webpage is really heavy since it loads much more content than the post itself and the platform treats unregistered users as if they didn't deserve to read the content.

1 comments

People use Twitter to write long blog posts because of one simple fact: the presence of people to read your writing is more valuable than any possibible combination of typesetting, CSS, and noninvasive ad placement.
It would work just as fine writing a blog post on an appropriate platform and then sharing the link through Twitter.