[notreallyserio]

While we're off topic here's my little rant about Twitter "threads":

It's easy to see all of the tweets made by the author, at least those made as replies to themselves, but reading the actual threads is hard or impossible. At least I haven't figured out how to do it despite considerable effort.

For example, say you want to view the replies to the tweet above the linked tweet, the one about "assert". There are supposedly 4 replies. If you tap that tweet you remain in the same list of self-replied tweets. There are replies at the end, but are they replies to the tweet you want to focus on? It doesn't look like it, but who knows, maybe? It's even worse on linger Twitter self-reply "threads".

I don't know how Twitter's engineers got the well-established threading pattern so wrong. This behavior doesn't even increase the number of ads you see.