[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.