There’s a study to be done on the polarization around twitter threads. I have zero problem with them and find overall that lots of great ideas are posted in threads, and the best folks doing it end up with super cogent and well written pieces. I find it baffling how many folks are triggered by them and really hate them!
This is likely because threads are a "high engagement" signal for Twitter and therefore prone to being gamed.
There are courses teaching people how to game the Twitter algo. One of those took off significantly in the past 18 months. You can tell by the number of amateurs creating threads on topics far beyond their reach. The purpose of these threads is for it to show up on people's feeds under the "Topic" section.
For example, I often see see random posts from "topics" Twitter thinks I like (webdev, UI/UX, cats, old newspaper headlines). I had to unsubscribe from 'webdev' and "UI/UX" because the recommended posts were all growth hackers. It wasn't always that way.
I'm not the only one, others have commented on it as well, including a well known JS developer:
> This is likely because threads are a "high engagement" signal for Twitter and therefore prone to being gamed.
You mean this is the reason folks respond differently to the form of twitter thread? This is one that is definitely not from a growth hacker but folks here still seem to hate it.
