kossnocorp

Discovered the app on Twitter, it's amazingly good at recording product demos

Hey, after I learned that Twitter acquired Revue, I decided to build a mashup app that converts Revue newsletters to Twitter threads.

I used an algorithm that splits along text into tweets from another project that ensures that the sentences never slice and the thread is easy to read.

I've built it using Preact, CSS, Firebase (Firestore/Functions).

You're right, and I suppose that's why Twitter doesn't add it. But when you write a thread and then spot a typo right in the middle, it's a disaster. You don't have to deal with clunky Twitter UI but also have to recreate the content (images, text).

Chirr does not update the content but removes the edited part of the thread and republishes it, so it's impossible to abuse.

Another thing I working on is delayed publishing ala Gmail.

Thanks! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

I didn't. It sounds like a fun idea but not sure if the content consumers would understand it, and also Twitter caches the card content (not sure for how long though), so it might just not work.

I never said that threads are better than blog posts. It's a different format and provides its advantages.

- First of all, threads are often long-living i.e., authors update it over time. It allows them to surface the content every time they update it.

- Secondly, often every tweet's a self-containing idea. Blog posts usually are worried and need more time to grasp.

- Also, it's not only easy to consume but also to share.

I like, write and consume both Twitter threads and blog posts.

Yes, you got it right!

I'm also working on adding a delayed publishing like in GMail, so you can edit typos even before the thread got published.