As someone who never used Twitter, it seems like microblogs are like comments from a thread but the parent thread doesn’t exist and each top level comment is its own topic? Perhaps a roundabout way of thinking, but am I on the right track here?
As someone who never used Twitter, it seems like microblogs are like comments from a thread but the parent thread doesn’t exist and each top level comment is its own topic? Perhaps a roundabout way of thinking, but am I on the right track here?
You mean essentially your comment and this whole chain?
If you’re comparing to Reddit it’s like being on a megathread - topic is just the subreddit itself.
If you’re comparing to Twitter, then I think your logic makes sense
Thanks - the reddit analogy helps! The microblogging hasn’t been immediately obvious to me at least.