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Was thinking about this editable-threads-not-editable-tweets thing again today...
And find myself thinking that if someone were building Twitter from scratch today, they might want to make Threads
be its own thing that's different from just a series of same-author replies. https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1229910373765177344
And find myself thinking that if someone were building Twitter from scratch today, they might want to make Threads
be its own thing that's different from just a series of same-author replies. https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1229910373765177344
Twitter has done this slightly in the UI:
ā¢ when viewing, prioritizes all being shown in order, leaving replies til later
ā¢ interface for composing a thread all at once
ā¢ author gets "Add another tweet" btn at the bottom, which launches this thread composer not reply-composer
ā¢ when viewing, prioritizes all being shown in order, leaving replies til later
ā¢ interface for composing a thread all at once
ā¢ author gets "Add another tweet" btn at the bottom, which launches this thread composer not reply-composer
My thought today was inspired in part by playing around with @metamitya's app knovigator, which seems to sort of have this (it calls them quests, I think?) https://twitter.com/metamitya/status/1246555934756876289
This is part of a much deeper exploration I've had for some time which is like, what kind of relationship can two tweets have to each other? Currently it's basically:
- reply
- QT (quote-tweet)
but there are many implicit things those official relationships can each mean!
- reply
- QT (quote-tweet)
but there are many implicit things those official relationships can each mean!
Man. Okay, just thinking out loud here.
What is the meaning of a reply?
Moreso than anything else, whether thread or conversation, it represents the CONTEXT of a tweet.
See something QT'd or RT'd? Click through to see its context.
eg
"which reason?" https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1135762331202277377
What is the meaning of a reply?
Moreso than anything else, whether thread or conversation, it represents the CONTEXT of a tweet.
See something QT'd or RT'd? Click through to see its context.
eg
"which reason?" https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1135762331202277377
My idea of individual tweets being non-editable but threads being editable would potentially kind of undermine this, unfortunately 
But maybe it's something like, the old thread-structure isn't destroyed... just overlaid with a new by default? This is tough.
But maybe it's something like, the old thread-structure isn't destroyed... just overlaid with a new by default? This is tough.
IDK. I feel like I'm onto something important here but I can't quite find it. Something like... okay, I created my roamblog so I could link to half-finished drafts, & what's great is that that same link will point at a finished draft once it's done. Can't do that with threads.
It seems to me like http://knovigator.com 's Quest concept is kind of pointing at this, like, an ever-evolving exploration of a question. Where (as far as your exobrain is concerned) a given Quest represents your best answer to that question at a point in time.
Twitter could have this too. "Moments" wanted to be it but was were confused on a bunch of levels so it didn't work.
@RoamResearch already has pages, but doesn't have the beauty of each utterance / thought-fragment being a static snapshot of the moment it was published.
@RoamResearch already has pages, but doesn't have the beauty of each utterance / thought-fragment being a static snapshot of the moment it was published.
(I mentioned this here talking about how Roam could evolve into a slack replacement.) https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1234957944153944069
Also while we're on this topic, I need to make a plug for a "retract" button for a tweet. I can do a whole thread at some point about how I might design it, but for now check out this 
thread by @groundedSAGE on why we utterly need this https://twitter.com/groundedSAGE/status/1145221577656680448
thread by @groundedSAGE on why we utterly need this https://twitter.com/groundedSAGE/status/1145221577656680448
Aha, see right now I would love to pre-emptively link from here to a space where I would be designing the retract button for the tweet, but the only way to do that on twitter is to make an initial tweet that promises to become a full thread later, which is awkward.
I guess I'll make a page on my roamblog for it, where I can start collecting drafty thoughts. That's another amazing thing about Roam compared to Twitter...
(Maybe my ideal version of Twitter would somehow have BOTH editable and non-editable tweets
) https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/Hp7ZPrNsW
(Maybe my ideal version of Twitter would somehow have BOTH editable and non-editable tweets
) https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/Hp7ZPrNsW
