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Tim Dawkins's avatar

I read another piece from a pop culture critic at NPR several weeks ago who talked about the advent of the online newsletter as another version of the personal blog and being excited to see things come full circle back to more long form interactions. As someone who writes a (mostly) weekly newsletter here on Substack, and who has had a number of different blogs over the years, I’m also excited by the number of people jumping into it. There’s something to be said for a life beyond 180 characters!

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Ava Jarvis's avatar

Ever since 2018 when I logged off Twitter, I have actually treated some individuals' timelines like newsletters (like Jason!). Having a ton of microblog entries thrown at me seemed to have exacerbated my social media addiction issues, so I have settled back into "one person at a time" reading for years.

And then Twitter decided to stop showing beyond the first three tweets of anyone's timeline for logged out users.

I mean, it was pretty good at breaking what little attachment I had left to the site.

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