I've said it before and I'll say it again: trying to re-learn how to do social media on Tumblr as opposed to Twitter is a weird process. There's a rhythm to writing for Twitter, dictated in part by the character limit and in part by culture, that's totally different to Tumblr.
Take the graf above. On Twitter I might have written it so:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: re-learning how to do social media on Tumblr as opposed to Twitter is Weird.
There's a rhythm to writing for Twitter that's totally different.
That's dictated in part by character limit and in part by culture.
Tumblr, both as a medium and a culture, lends itself more to long sentences and denser paragraphs. (I think Reddit is similar but I've never been a poster there, only a lurker.) Twitter encourages more line breaks, not only when you have a new high-level idea to introduce, but when you have supporting points to bring up within the idea.
Like, I feel like a lunatic putting this thought on a new line here on Tumblr.
On Twitter I wouldn't think twice. It's normal. Expected. Required!
Here I feel like a slam poet who just barged into a university lecture or a Shakespeare soliloquy.
This being said, it's not like Tumblr doesn't have a local convention of breaking up thoughts over multiple lines/posts. Here we often do it via the medium of reblogs, though, like in this excellent post by @amtrak-official.
idk man I just think linguistic cultures are so interesting!!
Fuck yeah, internet linguistics analysis
