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by ishanhegde 942 days ago
Tweets are much more ephemeral than blogs. Longform writing indeed is a great avenue for working with ideas, and letting them take root.

But getting engagement from blogging is much harder. It takes much longer for blogs to get popular. Walled gardens like twitter are much more convinient for people to get into. More importantly, due to network effect, it is much harder to get engagement outside.

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The ephemerality is the reverse to how it should be. A tweet from 15 years ago is probably still there. A blog's domain name might have expired, so its posts are lost.

So bloggers should copypaste the other blog posts they like into their own blog.

True. I was mistakenly confusing how the blogs/tweets ought to be Vs How they actually are