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For those that can't stand Twitter's UI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1345146328058269696.html

It's very painful to follow a conversation on Twitter. I'm not sure why they think the way they've done things makes sense.

It was never supposed to support conversation in the first place.

People were supposed to shoot short, simple, single messages and other people maybe react to this with their own short, single messages.

We are way way past that point.

It’s time for Twitter to evolve in so many ways.

I think they can't as their system is built with many of these limitations and preconceptions and it's hard for it to evolve easily.

It may be difficult to evolve, but it should be possible.

If there's will, there's a way. Remember how long they've tried to convince themselves that 140 characters is more than enough. Nowadays, even phones display conversations better and combine or split text messages hiding the 160 characters limit from the end user and allow longer than 280 characters texts. Twitter has some nice ideas, but it's mostly a huge missed opportunity.

The character limit was central to making Twitter what it is. Without that limit you'd just have ended up with walls of text and nobody would have been interested. This is a great example of limitations forcing creativity.

The character limit is the defining feature of Twitter.