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Because there is a big audience there to read it.

Fortunately this website exists: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1151832864494903296.html



This looks nice, but when you're combining a bunch of tweets it just helps you notice how choppy and disjointed the writing is— it still feels like a bunch of tweets stuck together.


Fortunately there is also the hyperlink. One can use Twitter to post said hyperlink to an article written on a webpage.


People are less likely to click through to another web page than to keep reading on the current one too.


So this is clickbait 2.0? Basically instead of incentivizing someone to click on a link to learn more, just shit out the 'more' in mediocre form right in your face.


You're rarely presented with more than 2-3 of a tweet thread at once, wouldn't really call it right in your face.




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