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Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms (techcrunch.com)
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."
can monopolize conversations without suffering opposing views
now THERE'S a great idea!
Given how they are usually used, "twit-storms" might be a better name.
The domain has changed, not tttthreads.com anymore, but still works fine:
https://threadreaderapp.com/
Not limited to 25 messages, not controlled by twitter.
Or maybe he'll finally have the chance to say enough where people realize he's a twat...
-SaNo
Those that fail to study IRC and Usenet are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Also, too, and either... he's no twat, he's the grabber of twat.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
he didn't even need the boost from 140 to 280 characters for that.
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.
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.
Twits. Because that's the first word that comes into my mind when someone tells me they use Twitter.
I tend to rant.
I wonder how long it took Twitter to implement this feature request from the Trump-hole.
Why is Snark Required?
Alternately, we could just start refusing to read any multi-tweet Tweets, or perhaps begin delivering personalized cockpunches to their authors.
Since these are SHared storms on twITter, I say we call them SHITstorms, and save everyone a little time and effort.
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man the next 7 years are going to be rough on you...
you should get medicated.
.. I guess none of them saw the film.
Or if they did, they didn't remember how it ended.
You're going to find out how wrong you soon-to-be-faggots are in prison, Trumpies.
For what, wrong think? Ain't much longer before you commie progressives are throwing people into a gulag on whatever trumped up charges some petty bureaucrat comes up with. Canada is almost there, the UK is definitely there. The whole Anglophone world is going full retard on this "Social Justice" scam, and it isn't a pretty sight.
It's exactly how I feel about twitter:
Tweet storm
You kidding? It's impossible not to hear the media's left-wing views. They are trumpeted from the skies 24/7. 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. This is unprecedented for a President, the media is accustomed to go through what the President says, frame it according to their biases, and then transmit to the people. They've lost this, and they're super angry about it. How dare that man speak to the citizenry without going through their filter!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
... some new form of public communication system in which people could publish text of any length! It would be accessible over the web, and for an analogy that Slashdotters will understand, it would be similar to an event log or other extended data file. Why, we could call it a "web-log" or "blog" for short!
Alternately, we could just start refusing to read any multi-tweet Tweets, or perhaps begin delivering personalized cockpunches to their authors.
home (blog) servers matter. So do home irc servers, and home usenet servers. Or if you're corrupt, you can just go spin that Pai narrative of website operator non-transparency as if there isn't enough competition in the micro/blogging website spectrum to justify respecting the liberty of individual website operators to be as opaque as they feel like.
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!
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.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Here's the actual figure he tweeted out with his useful statistics for anyone who missed it.
-gnick
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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?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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% whites killed by blacks and 7.6% blacks killed by whites. Not remotely close to DJT's numbers. Whites are much more often killed by whites and ditto for blacks.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
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 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 don't understand patriotism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
You forgot
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
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 Alterman "What liberal media?"
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
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
And yet, no LIBERAL news media telling you about Reagan the Tax raiser, no liberal media telling you about Bush's theft...
Are reporters liberal?
Most educated people are.
is the Corporate rag posting liberal news?
Total lie!