Twitter allows, and lets individuals amplify, hate, threats, and abuse. They have rules against it, but often ignore it, even when people bring it to their attention. Not only would it be less common on Notd (because we don't need to sell ads), we won't tolerate it.

Twitter is obviously great for broadcasting short comments to those who want to hear them (and also to the people who get them second hand), but it's horrible for longer messages/statements/essays. And even though people try to have debates and arguments on twitter, it's worthless for those purposes. It requires long threads of tweets to expand on points or provide nuance"On twitter, every reply can create a sub-thread, out of the control of the tweet", which often get lost when threads are interrupted or when one of the tweets is re-broadcasted (kind of like how amplifiers used to have a lot of distortion when the volume was cranked up).

twitter enforces brevity with its 280 character limit on tweets, which often leads to miscommunication and heated arguments that would be avoided if people weren't forced to keep their comments arbitrarily short<.

Twitter doesn't really have a viable business model, for even while it is a very popular platform that's been around for fifteen years, it hasn't been profitable<. Their new owner may make changes to that model by charging for some functions, but it's not clear how that will work. Ad revenue has proven it cannot sustain twitter.

Twitter doesn't really have a good way to support groups or communities. What they call communities are just cordoned-off tweets.

There aren't any good ways for popular twitter accounts to monetize their work. For some writers, twitter is a huge (but deemed necessary) time sink, and it would be nice if they could get some compensation for it.

So how does Notd work? Like on twitter, anyone can publish on Notd. Both platforms use accounts, except Notd lets each account publish multiple streams (our word for “channels”). People follow accounts on twitter, and subscribe to streams on Notd. Each stream can be like a blog or a section of a newspaper. Subscribers can read notes on the website or web app, or receive them via email. We have a more blog-like editor for publishing than twitter, and as you can see from the “hover notes, we allow in-line annotation.

For more information on publishing a stream, check out creating a stream and Publishing Tips.