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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
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="š§µ" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> be its own thing that& #39;s different from just a series of same-author replies. https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1229910373765177344">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
And find myself thinking that if someone were building Twitter from scratch today, they might want to make Threads
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& #39;s app knovigator, which seems to sort of have this (it calls them quests, I think?) https://twitter.com/metamitya/status/1246555934756876289">https://twitter.com/metamitya...
This is part of a much deeper exploration I& #39;ve had for some time which is like, what kind of relationship can two tweets have to each other? Currently it& #39;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& #39;d or RT& #39;d? Click through to see its context.
eghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="š" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index"> "which reason?" https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1135762331202277377">https://twitter.com/utotransl...
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& #39;d or RT& #39;d? Click through to see its context.
eg
My idea of individual tweets being non-editable but threads being editable would potentially kind of undermine this, unfortunately https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="š¤" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">
But maybe it& #39;s something like, the old thread-structure isn& #39;t destroyed... just overlaid with a new by default? This is tough.
But maybe it& #39;s something like, the old thread-structure isn& #39;t destroyed... just overlaid with a new by default? This is tough.
IDK. I feel like I& #39;m onto something important here but I can& #39;t quite find it. Something like... okay, I created my roamblog so I could link to half-finished drafts, & what& #39;s great is that that same link will point at a finished draft once it& #39;s done. Can& #39;t do that with threads.
It seems to me like http://knovigator.com"> http://knovigator.com & #39;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& #39;t work.
@RoamResearch already has pages, but doesn& #39;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& #39;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">https://twitter.com/Malcolm_O...
Also while we& #39;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 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="šÆ" title="Hundred points symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Hundred points symbol"> thread by @groundedSAGE on why we utterly need this https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="š" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index"> https://twitter.com/groundedSAGE/status/1145221577656680448">https://twitter.com/groundedS...
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& #39;ll make a page on my roamblog for it, where I can start collecting drafty thoughts. That& #39;s another amazing thing about Roam compared to Twitter...
(Maybe my ideal version of Twitter would somehow have BOTH editable and non-editable tweetshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="š¤Æ" title="Exploding head" aria-label="Emoji: Exploding head">) https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/Hp7ZPrNsW">https://roamresearch.com/...
(Maybe my ideal version of Twitter would somehow have BOTH editable and non-editable tweets
