[rubyfan]

I couldn’t even get through it. I sort of hate Twitter threads. Lost are the days of making your point in 140 characters or less.

[smt88]

I've never seen an interesting point that could be made in 140 characters or less. That limit works for jokes, headlines, and almost nothing else.

Single-tweet "wisdom" always turns out to be something so broad/unqualified that it's uninteresting or untrue. VC Twitter is basically a deluge of that kind of faux-profound nonsense.

[drewcoo]

> Single-tweet "wisdom" always turns out to be something so broad/unqualified that it's uninteresting or untrue.

True, but Twitter threads are the Burma Shave signs of the tech-gentsia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-burmashave/2/

[scrapcode]

At first I found it surprising to start finding all of these Twitter threads making it to the front of HN and thought "well, it must be a really compelling message..." Now I just ignore them altogether. It is a very distracting medium for the longer posts, and that distraction shows through from the writers side as well.

[expanseoftrees]

Haha I created an account just to agree. There’s no content to this twitter thread. I think he’s anti mainstream? That’s his signal?

[alcover]

> hate Twitter threads

Me too. They are absurd, hard to read and a waste of resource (load time, requests, steaming pile of JS).

They sould be penalized/barred.