I had to endure the horror of reading it that way yesterday. Twitter loads incredibly slowly and keeps showing full screen popups to sign up which if you aren't very careful will redirect you away from the page.

Why on earth would anyone thing twitter is an appropriate blogging platform.

Does anybody prefer to consume it that way?

It's actually the original format in which the author published this content. It was auto-converted to the blog style format linked here on HN by https://twitter.com/threader_app.

> Want to see some magic? See a thread. Mention @threader_app with the word "compile". Get a reply from our bot with the link to the thread[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/threader_app/status/1041712862295666690

No, twitter is a trash medium for sharing stories like this. That said a link to the twitter stream in this thread will be useful to future visitors to this HN thread is threader is no longer a thing and/or down.

Oh, is that why every single paragraph links to a tweet? What a horrible way to write an awesome story.