[_Microft]

Blogging on Twitter is preferable to "not blogging at all" and "blogging on an obscure domain that almost nobody ever discovers". Consume the content with threadreaderapp if you don't like the UI or use Nitter if you don't want to log in to Twitter (maybe ignore it if neither of that sounds like an acceptable choice).

[OGWhales]

> Blogging on Twitter is preferable to "not blogging at all" and "blogging on an obscure domain that almost nobody ever discovers".

There is a third option, linking to the blog from twitter. I'm surprised so many people would bother splitting long form writing into a bunch of separate tweets, as it is even more obnoxious than reading them in that format.

Nitter is great, I use that a lot.

[Someone]

From an author’s perspective, why split their posts between platforms depending on their length?

Twitter isn’t perfect, but it’s where the readers are, so they publish there, even if it doesn’t have the best UI for them or their readers.

[hedora]

Linking from twitter to a seld hosted blog makes sense for long term control over distribution of their content, and discoverability of their other work.

I wish RSS were more popular.

[Someone]

I would guess many Twitter users don’t care much about discoverability of their other work, if they have it in the first place.

If they have it, I think “self-hosted” isn’t a realistic option for the majority of Twitter users. Their other content will likely be distributed between Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Twitter users also can have some long term control over what they wrote: users that want that can regularly download a machine-readable copy of their feed. I doubt many use that kind of backup, though.

[meragrin_]

> Blogging on Twitter is preferable to "not blogging at all" and "blogging on an obscure domain that almost nobody ever discovers".

Short blurb in tweet with link to actual content? You know, like they used to do?

> Consume the content with threadreaderapp if you don't like the UI or use Nitter if you don't want to log in to Twitter.

Or perhaps, people should choose the correct medium to begin with? To me, you might as well be saying I should do X because someone else is trying to hold a "video conference" with me via snail mail and photos.

[gigglesupstairs]

Also, the chunking done because of limited character space actually helps the brain avoid cognitive overload. May be not in all the cases but it certainly helps in lot.