Summary
The maintainer of the Clean Up Twitter initiative views Medium's new short-form posts as a promising alternative to Twitter, offering more thoughtful content and monetary incentives for writers, with a potential to mitigate hate and trolling through careful writing and publication approval processes.
Abstract
The author, who maintains the Clean Up Twitter initiative, finds Medium's introduction of short-form posts to be a significant and interesting move into the space dominated by Twitter. These posts are noted for being more considered and well-written than typical tweets. Moreover, Medium's Partner Program provides a financial incentive for writers to attract readership. The author suggests that the process of adding posts to Medium publications, which includes an approval step, along with the generally higher quality of writing, could lead to a reduction in the prevalence of hate and trolling often found on Twitter. This is seen as part of a broader project within the Medium community, with a particular emphasis on engaging technologists.
Opinions
- The author believes that Medium's short-form posts are superior in quality to tweets.
- There is an opinion that the financial incentive for writers in the Medium Partner Program encourages better content and wider readership.
- The author suggests that the vetting process for including posts in Medium publications contributes to higher content quality and less toxicity.
- The author implies that the new short-form post format on Medium could be a tool for the Medium community project aimed at improving the Twitter experience.
