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> As someone who has only really started using Twitter in the last few months

Seems like a little bit of a self-report right off the bad. The OP is not very familiar with Twitter and the ecosystem and user behaviors of the platform, and is coming with (admittedly biased) perspective as a blogger.

For example:

> someone that I follow re-tweeted Tweet number 47 in this ridiculously long thread.

This is actually highlighting one of the benefits of Twitter threads as a text - chunkable content. Blog posts are great for a long narrative that requires full context of the intro/supporting/conclusion, but Twitter threads excel in areas where the content is more a series statements/points that can stand alone. Think more like "bullet points" of a topic rather than a longer-form narrative.

But then, the OP transitions into the quick assumption that the problem is the difficulty in setting up a blog, which is a big assumption that I think misses the actual benefits of this format vs. traditional blogging.



(OP here)I’m very familiar with Twitter, as I’ve been using it for quite a long time, I just came back to it a few months ago.

Probably should have been more accurate in the post, sorry about that.




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