Blog post w/ Twitter thread about Twitter threads & blog posts & how to turn a Twitter thread into a blog post

So I am writing a blog post here where I have captured a Twitter thread about blog posts and Twitter threads. I saw a Tweet from Pat Schloss and responded to it:So@PatSchloss had a Tweet a few minutes ago about a comment he got suggesting Twitter threads are more effective than blog posts and I thought I would comment about this in a thread 1/nhttps://t.co/WxHXyFTZOS— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 23, 2019 But that was not the only Tweet I made about this. I made a whole frigging thread. You can see the thread in most Twitter clients by clicking on the Tweet. But I figured I would also capture the thread here in this blog post. Tweet #2 in the thread.I think this is only partially true. In the short term and for most purposes, Twitter threads are probably more effective. 2/n— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 23, 2019 Tweet #3 in the Thread.But Twitter threads mostly seem to get lost / ignored after a short period of time (days) 3/n— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 23, 2019 Tweet #4 in the Thread.Blog posts on the other hand have longer legs and also have the advantage in most cases of being updatable and more able to accommodate different formats and such 4/n— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics)March 23, 2019 Tweet #5 in the Thread.So what I have started doing in some cases is posting Twitter threads and then capturing them via@wakelet or embeds into a blog post with some other details and this then has a bit longer lifespan than the thread itself. 5/n—...
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