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Processing interesting stuff on Twitter
Whenever I find anything that’s interesting, I typically send it to Instapaper, which is where I do my reading. If it’s an article linked to in the tweet, sending to Instapaper is simple enough. If it’s the tweet itself, Email Tweet does the job. If it’s a Twitter thread, though, it’s not straightforward. Twitter’s own app can only email a single tweet:
Tweetbot can email a thread, formatted quite well, but maddeningly it formats it reverse-chronologically, which is not how you want to show conversations:
This is unfortunate because the app itself formats it correctly.
I also add topics to my own Collections via the fantastic app Charm, which we have written about briefly before. It’s curious Twitter doesn’t expose Collections more. They do so much more than Bookmarks, which is the closest analog, though a pale one. As we have said in the blog post on Charm, there can be many Collections, and you can order the tweets within each.
I do not know where I will use these Collections yet. They will probably be embeds on future interest-specific pages on this website.
I use Twitter in more ways than I had realised. The main timeline, Lists and Topics for discovery. Plus curation via Collections. I look forward to moving from discovery to more engagement with other people on Twitter in the years to come.
PS: The venture capitalist Nick Grossman has created an interesting way to hijack Twitter as a commenting system instead of an on-blog system like WordPress’ own or Disqus. Here is the description. This is the sort of hack that I love the web for.
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