A Cause of Cringe - Twitter

[Lord Osmund de Ixabert]

A dash of preamble is sometimes needed to keep a statement from taking a dreadfully cringey turn, I've noticed

To avoid cringiness, a thought must sometimes be shared in a certain elaborated fashion, which, blast it all, is devilishly difficult on Twitter due to the confounded character limit

Hence, we're left with innumerbale 'cringey' utterances by almost everyone that regularly uses that platform, and I have yet to encounter a single Twitter user who has not been guilty of this grave transgression from time to time

It's because they don't have the character count allowance to present the thing in the proper manner

Without a bit of preamble, for instance, many a philosophical and axiomatic truth about the nature of life and death cannot be made without coming across as the crassest sort of sentimentalism

 

[kanethenotorious]

The low char count is what kept me off of twitter for a long time. I eventually decided to work around it with links to blogs/reddit, nested posted [1) 2) 3)] and screenshots. I understand why they limit the char count though so people don't clog up the feed. However, it is what kept me off the platform for a long time.

 

[Charles Silvius Haddock]

A dash of preamble is sometimes needed to keep a statement from taking a dreadfully cringey turn, I've noticed

To avoid cringiness, a thought must sometimes be shared in a certain elaborated fashion, which, blast it all, is devilishly difficult on Twitter due to the confounded character limit

Hence, we're left with innumerbale 'cringey' utterances by almost everyone that regularly uses that platform, and I have yet to encounter a single Twitter user who has not been guilty of this grave transgression from time to time

It's because they don't have the character count allowance to present the thing in the proper manner

Without a bit of preamble, for instance, many a philosophical and axiomatic truth about the nature of life and death cannot be made without coming across as the crassest sort of sentimentalism

Supposedly the same thing is not true of Gab, so it seems you were right that Gab is the better platform of the two. But all of the old Phorites are on Twitter, not Gab, and it has been impossible to convince them to make the switch. Therefore we've been stuck with an unsatisfactory platform if we want to rebuild our old network. Musk, while he made a big show of toning down the censorship, also put into place new features that make the platform in some ways less free than when it was run by Dorsey, Agrawal, &c. For example, deleting one's ability to link to external platforms, in an initiative to keep Twitter content 'native'. But we should have learned over the years that this is undesirable in the extreme, since if we are not the owners of our data, they *will* eventually scrap it without a care in the world. Being able to link freely to one's other platforms is at least some kind of insurance against callous treatment of user data. That has been the case with so many things over time: just look at what happened to Angelfire and Geocities for example. In this way, a great deal of the web's history was lost.

 

[kanethenotorious]

By the way if you have a blue check by your account, because you've paid for the premium version of twitter, you can go beyond the char limit. I noticed people making bigger posts and googled about it.

Twitter Blue now includes 10,000 character limit, bold, italics, and more

As Twitter plans to end the Blue checkmark for legacy accounts next week, the social media platform announced the new perk of being a Blue … The post Twitter Blue now includes 10,000 character limit, bold, italics, and more appeared first on BGR.

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[Gawn Chippin]

...all of the old Phorites are on Twitter, not Gab, and it has been impossible to convince them to make the switch...

Twitter collects a far greater audience. I'm guessing that on a worldwide basis, most Twatterers and Faceboogers haven't even heard of GAB