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This is a strawman. The best Twitter threads incorporate a coherent idea into ~1 tweet, sometimes accompanied by an illustrative image or link to further reading.

It turns out that forcing conciseness and having simple embedded media can make for engaging reading. It's not the right format for all writing, and not everyone knows how to use it (see your example), but it is fantastic for commentary and analysis.



It's fantastic for soundbites and the flamewars that they generate. I can't think of any other use case that's genuinely enhanced by Twitter limits.




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