Twitter does a few things I can’t do with other platforms.
1. I can quickly search through all of someone’s thoughts on a particular subjects, and all of people’s thoughts on those thoughts, and peoples thoughts on those thoughts, etc.
2. I can comment on someone else’s specific thought on a subject, and start a conversation thread on it.
3. I can subscribe to someone’s thoughts, without them needing to write essays, etc. It provides a very low friction way to share thoughts.
4. I can build off of my previous thoughts, creating an interconnected web of all my thoughts on a topic. The link is not to a whole “essay” but to the individual thought from that essay that’s relevant.
One way to think of twitter is a vast web of interconnected individual ideas. The character limit forces people to segment their tweets by thought, allowing for this to happen.
Twitter does a few things I can’t do with other platforms.
1. I can quickly search through all of someone’s thoughts on a particular subjects, and all of people’s thoughts on those thoughts, and peoples thoughts on those thoughts, etc.
2. I can comment on someone else’s specific thought on a subject, and start a conversation thread on it.
3. I can subscribe to someone’s thoughts, without them needing to write essays, etc. It provides a very low friction way to share thoughts.
4. I can build off of my previous thoughts, creating an interconnected web of all my thoughts on a topic. The link is not to a whole “essay” but to the individual thought from that essay that’s relevant.
One way to think of twitter is a vast web of interconnected individual ideas. The character limit forces people to segment their tweets by thought, allowing for this to happen.