From Twitter, to Instagram, to Soundcloud, to Vimeo this is extremely evident. Look at the connection between what is said in the article and the links provided. Twitter is full of rich text, images, sounds and motion pictures. It is a sort of melting pot of it all. Instagram as well. The singular options include Soundcloud for sound (of course) and Vimeo for "...moving pictures."

And references to Granovetter, with his famous 1973 article. This [article on sports media and Twitter](http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20143219270.html sounds contextually relevant.

Incredible that the "screenshort" hack is now getting integrated into Twitter itself. But it's still not web annotation!

Alice Maz on communication failures due to different cultures of conversation and values.

Most people value feelings, shared perspectives, and social status. They see correction as an attempt to knock them down a peg. Nerds value facts, logic, and the sharing of information. A genuine nerd shares information with no intention of knocking anyone down, and prefers being corrected to remaining misinformed.

Twitter is rumored to be planning to increase maximum tweet length to 10,000 characters. They want to attract people who don't already use Twitter, and they want to keep users on Twitter for longer periods of time.

If these extended tweets are hidden until clicked, this doesn't bother me. But other recent changes are obnoxious and insulting. Much more of this will make Twitter useless.

• filtering your timeline
• displaying tweets out of order
• making a chain of replies hard to find

Hypothesis might make a fine alternative to Twitter.

• Is anyone using hypothesis in this way yet?
• What would be a good tag to distinguish "tweet" Notes?<br> (I guess it would be cute to use "tweet" as the tag.)
• When there's not a specific webpage involved, what would be the best URLs on which to attach such a Note?<br> (I suppose any page of your own on a social media site or blog would do. I also see that we can annotate pages on local servers.)

Sad news.

Maybe annotation could put "tweet" sized things into context and thereby avoid the "argument machine."

Rashly assuming anyone will actually take time to read the context and the comment...

It would be worth interrogating what it is about "the nature of Twitter" that makes this so.

I think it has to do with the intersection of a number of things:

• 140 character limit
• Broadcast and re-broadcast that de-couples the Tweet from the authorial context
• Sub-tweeting and shaming as attire and slacktivism

I'm sure that's only the surface.

twitter

And maybe it's not just about reporting and connecting, but reporting and connecting through something specific, some artifact of the online world: annotation.

There's already a segment of the Twitterati doing this via highlighted screenshots of text attached to Tweets as photos ("screenshorts" they are called).

There's even an app to do this now: OneShot.

And then we got to share in the pathos of his 18th birthday (best read in reverse):

Really love the illustrations for this article. But shouldn't the knife be in the bird's back?

While Twitter has certainly become just this, it strikes me at how bad Twitter actually is at "conversation." It's actually quite difficult to sustain a focused back and forth on Twitter. IMO.

Would like to know more about the Cold War ideas referenced above.

Lets talk about annotating twitter tweets. If this is my note and I leave a comment where does it link to and where does it look to go

Twitter basics.

I've recently decided, for myself, that Twitter is not a viable platform for political discussions. I simply can't do it anymore. I spend more time getting derailed by confusion stemming from trying to be terse when discussing subtleties than I do actually discussing the issues I wanted to discuss.