Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms (techcrunch.com) 47
New submitter FatdogHaiku writes: For those people that must use multiple tweets to rant (or educate) on Twitter, a feature called "Threads" is being rolled out to aid in creating "tweetstorms" (i.e. gang tweets). Given how tweetstorms are normally used, how about we call them twitphoons? TechCrunch explains just how easy to use the new threads feature is: "There's now a new plus ('+') button in the composer screen where you can type out your series of tweets. Each line represents one tweet, with a character limit of 280 as per usual. You can also add the same amount of media -- like GIFs, images, videos, and more -- to any individual tweet in the thread, as you could on Twitter directly. When you're finished with one tweet, you just tap in the space below to continue your thread. While writing out your tweetstorm, you can go back and edit the tweets at any time as they're still in draft format. When you're ready to post, you tap the 'Tweet all' button at the top to send the stream to Twitter. (Twitter will pace the tweets' posting a bit so they don't all hit at once.)"
"In addition, another handy feature allows you to go back and update a thread by adding new tweets after it already posted," adds TechCrunch. "To do so, you'll write out the new tweet after tapping the 'Add another Tweet' button. This lets you continue to update a thread forever -- something Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey already does with his own threads, for example. Twitter tells us there's currently a limit of 25 entries in a thread, but that number may be subject to change depending on how the feature is adopted by the wider user base."
"In addition, another handy feature allows you to go back and update a thread by adding new tweets after it already posted," adds TechCrunch. "To do so, you'll write out the new tweet after tapping the 'Add another Tweet' button. This lets you continue to update a thread forever -- something Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey already does with his own threads, for example. Twitter tells us there's currently a limit of 25 entries in a thread, but that number may be subject to change depending on how the feature is adopted by the wider user base."
Oh great, so the Twitting Twat Twaddler in chief (Score:2, Interesting)
now THERE'S a great idea!
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Or maybe he'll finally have the chance to say enough where people realize he's a twat...
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Also, too, and either... he's no twat, he's the grabber of twat.
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You will be fighting with California
Where all the nukes are designed and made
Pretty sure your gym will be ashes if you try it
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The reason Trump's twitter account enrages them so much is that it allows him to bypass their gatekeeper function and speak directly with the people.
It's not "enraging" anyone. At least not typically; some exceptions. It's just a huge source of national embarrassment and occasionally a threat to global stability. Taunting "Little Rocket Man" is reckless. Name-calling perceived threats is childish. Sharing useful statistics like "81% of whites killed by blacks" is harmful, racist, and embarrassing. The "gatekeepers" just correct all the misinformation that he clings to.
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Since when were any of you ever proud of being American? To be embarrassed you have to have, at one point, been proud which is absolutely not true. American pride is a noxious view associated with middle America in your view, so WTF? You've always been embarrassed to be American.
What's the actual statistic on black on white crime and vice versa?
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Since when were any of you ever proud of being American?
I'm a proud American. There are a lot of things wrong with my country; there are plenty of stains on our history; and I'm concerned about our current vector. But we also claim a lot of accomplishments and advances and some of what we do helps the world. We have a lot of promise. America is Americans and some of my favorite people are Americans. America has Penn and Teller - What have you got?
What's the actual statistic on black on white crime and vice versa?
About 14.8% [factcheck.org] whites killed by blacks and 7.6% blacks killed by whites. Not remotely close to DJT's numbers. Whites are
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What are the stats for white on black rape versus black on white rape?
You're not a proud American. Americans are fucking morons. Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.
Americans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race a
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Americans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Americans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't.
I occasionally take a break from destroying the human race and profiting from disaster to drink the blood of babies, but other than that you've got us.
Are you just running off some absurd stereotype? Have you actually met an American? It's not all DJT & Jerry Springer.
If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican.
Not all patriotic Americans were born in America. Some proud Americans are also proud Mexicans.
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You kidding? It's impossible not to hear the media's left-wing views. ...
If there WAS a left wing media....you'd have spent the last 16 years hearing and rehearing how Bush LOST FLORIDA if any standard applied to the uncounted ballots
If there WAS a left wing media, you'd have spent the last 32 years hearing and rehearing that Reagan's "Boom" was entirely paid for with Federal DEBT, which he tripled
if there WAS a left wing media, you'd have known about Trump's visit to Putin to ask for help spreading dis-info as of 2015
Res ipsa Loquitor, there is no left wing media
Ask Eric Alterm
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Oh, sure the media is left-wing. But for you, it's just not far enough left. I mean, when you're that far out, anyone to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a Nazi to you.
-- Source: New York Times [nytimes.com]
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Are reporters liberal?
Most educated people are.
is the Corporate rag posting liberal news?
Total lie!
Better Name (Score:2)
Given how they are usually used, "twit-storms" might be a better name.
Been using tttthreads.com for months, works better (Score:3)
The domain has changed, not tttthreads.com anymore, but still works fine:
https://threadreaderapp.com/ [threadreaderapp.com]
Not limited to 25 messages, not controlled by twitter.
Chat and Forums. (Score:5, Insightful)
Those that fail to study IRC and Usenet are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
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Seems like Twitter is inching ever closer to a blog platform. PSSSST! Jack: it has been done already.
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Trying to follow Twitter 'threads' and hashtags reminds me of trying to follow conversation in a large IRC channel. Pound sign and all.
People replying to each other, not reading what others write, it's just a bunch of people shouting into a vacuum.
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a bunch of people shouting into a vacuum.
That's twitter and youtube in a nutshell. "Broadcast yourself", as if anyone cares. It has become so meaningless and void of relevant content that even moms no longer care about what their kids post.
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Youtube is the worst. A ton of 'micro bloggers' competing for a fixed number of eye balls.
The worst side affect of that is it's damn near impossible to find a good tutorial on multiple subjects these days. I don't want to watch a 10:01 video (10min the minimum time for ads?) to figure out how to delid my processor or do something on my ardunio, raspberry pi, 3D printer, etc.
What happened to a single page tutorial with written instructions and pictures that I could follow or even print out?
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Seems like Twitter is inching ever closer to a blog platform. PSSSST! Jack: it has been done already.
Once upon a time, they considered themselves a micro-blogging platform. Guess they are just getting a little less micro.
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But what about slack?
*giggles*
Re:Chat and Forums. (Score:4, Funny)
So, it has come to this. (Score:1)
While writing out your tweetstorm, you can go back and edit the tweets at any time as they're still in draft format. When you're ready to post, you tap the 'Tweet all' button at the top to send the stream to Twitter.
When I discovered usenet in 1985, I never imagined that one day, almost 33 years later, we'd have the technology to send more than 280 characters of text at once. I mean, such a thing was unimaginable back then. Of course, they're multiple messages, but I think that 20, maybe 30 years from now, we might have the technology to merge them into a single message. I know that's hard to imagine today, but technology marches on.
The modern internet is truly a marvel.
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The modern internet is truly a marvel.
Yes, and thanks to mobile, suggestions published by Yahoo 20 years ago to make web pages load faster are relevant again.
Oh for fuck's sake (Score:4, Insightful)
If I wanted to read interminable posts, I'd be using an RSS reader to follow their blogs or whatever. The whole damn value of Twitter was that it forced the posters to be brief. What they should be doing is adding tools that block twitstorms, not ones that enable them.
Or we just call them... (Score:2)
Twits. Because that's the first word that comes into my mind when someone tells me they use Twitter.
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Or Twats, using the past tense of the base verb. Twit, Twat, Twoot.
This suggests a brilliant idea... (Score:2)
Alternately, we could just start refusing to read any multi-tweet Tweets, or perhaps begin delivering personalized cockpunches to their authors.
Alternative title (Score:2)
When they named it "Threads"... (Score:2)
.. I guess none of them saw the film.
Or if they did, they didn't remember how it ended.
Good name (Score:2)
It's exactly how I feel about twitter:
Tweet storm [youtube.com]
Mob mentality just got better (Score:1)
Thank you Twitter. Now we can be even more efficient when we rabblerouse our witch hunts or drive people to suicide (like August Ames).
No one will ever dare to land a probe on the moon or have a divergent opinion ever again! Conformity for all our comrades!