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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...

Too bad the inline reply style got lost in email culture, but it's good to know it's alive and well on Twitter!


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.




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