Thread by @jeffgilchrist

Tutorial: How to share long threads from Twitter more easily with others.

Are there really long threads on Twitter you would rather read on a single web page and easily share with others who don't use Twitter? 🧵1/

I'm notorious for writing very long threads but in a few easy steps you can find or create easy to share web links for others. The services mentioned here only work for tweets with more than 1 thread and less than 6 months old. 2/

You can use a thread unrolling service such as Thread Reader ( threadreaderapp.com ) and PingThread ( pingthread.com ). 3/

Note, long threads will have tweets after 31 and 61 hidden unless you click on "Show replies" to reveal the additional tweets, so the unrolling service will also show all the tweets on on page, even those. 4/

It is possible to unroll threads from outside of Twitter on their website or by replying to a Twitter thread you like and this tutorial will show you both methods. 5/

Using their website:
1) Go to: pingthread.com

2) Copy the link to the Twitter thread and paste it into the website as shown and then click on the "Find Thread" button. 6/

3) Wait for the thread to be processed, and PingThread will then show you the one-page unrolled version. You can now copy the website address (URL) and share that with someone else (see red arrow in image). 7/

You can scroll down the web page and see all of the tweets unrolled into one web page. We have converted this Tweet (

https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1609236925348552704

) into this unrolled web page ( pingthread.com/thread/1609236… ). Note how the tweet # is identical on both website addresses. 8/

Unrolling from inside Twitter:
1) Open the thread in Twitter that you would like to unroll into a one page web version.

2) Reply to any tweet in the thready tagging the service of your choice (as seen in photo) 9/:
@threadreaderapp unroll
or
@PingThread unroll

3) The unrolling service will reply to your tweet with a link to the one-page unrolled web version which in this example is 10/: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609236…

4) Click on the link or copy and paste it to share with others. They will be able to scroll through all the tweets on one page unrolled together. 11/

Try out the website method or tweet replying method on this thread if you want to practice, then you can use these for any long Twitter threads you find that you want to share or read more easily. 12/

Sometimes other people have already unrolled threads from authors and you can find other interesting tweets by them visiting the author page on these services. 13/

For me that is by typing in the user's Twitter ID instead of a link to one of their tweets like shown in the image, which will bring you here 14/: threadreaderapp.com/user/jeffgilch…

This doesn't show all the tweets the author has written, but just the ones that people have asked the unrolling service to process ( pingthread.com/author/jeffgil… ). 15/

If a Twitter author has gone back and added additional tweets to their thread later on, you can ask the unrolling service to refresh the thread and include the new ones by going to the bottom of the web page of the unrolled thread and clicking on "Refresh Thread". 16/

You can find the 1 page unrolled version of this long thread here: pingthread.com/thread/1609623…