Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.
Agreed that it can be clunky to read depending on the platform, but there's a reason lots of prominent personalities and bloggers still use them.
> Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.
Personally, I'm glad it's mostly dead, at least in a forum context.
To me, at least, the inline replies were always a signal that a conversation was about to degenerate into an interminable running battle over minutiae.
Agreed that it can be clunky to read depending on the platform, but there's a reason lots of prominent personalities and bloggers still use them.