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That's how these Twitter accounts succeed with their threads, and you can do it too

This summer, Manuel Bartual (@ManuelBartual) set a trend becoming trending topic (TT) not only in Spain or in Spanish-speaking countries, but throughout the world The hashtags #Manuel , #Bartual and #ManuelBartual went around the world thanks to the originality and the way in which I tell a story of suspense: using Twitter threads .



If you missed my vacation, here you can read the full story in an orderly way.Everything is fine🙂 https://t.co/GM8pbDONme pic.twitter.com/N4Ej4Mpyqs


-Manuel Bartual (@ManuelBartual) September 2, 2017

Although Twitter threads come from afar, since from the beginning of the social network something like that was possible, its use It has been standardized in recent years, oriented to explain complex concepts in a format of 140 characters (soon 280).To the Twitter profiles that make us regain faith on the Internet we can add a few more today.Accounts that succeed by making use of the threads.


What is a thread in a social network or blog?


The taxonomy or structure of almost any blog, forum or web space on the Internet works in the same way: there is a hyperlink that hangs the rest of the blog links.In the case of this blog , from "www.nobbot.com" hang the rest of the articles, which can be commented by the readers, generating a chain of comments. Related


In the case of Twitter, this social network based on microblogging allows for a user to answer himself to form long chains of tweets on the same theme (narrative, dissemination, curiosities, photography...) These chains are known by the name of threads , and they are succeeding.


A little history to learn (through Twitter threads)


Twitter threads can be a great tool to ingest pills of knowledge about the past .Some tweeters use their personal accounts to explain some facts about which sometimes we go too fast without stopping to savor, like the following Alex Riveiro thread (@alex_riveiro, whose threads of astronomical disclosure deserve to be read) about Jan Oort, the man who named the System's cloud Solar.



As Neil deGrasse Tyson said, what does it say about knowing the names of mass murderers but not knowing who Jan Oort was? Let's talk about pic.twitter.com/sCVQR8Ab4e


-Alex Riveiro (@alex_riveiro) October 19, 2017

Alejandro Gamero (@alexsisifo), a graduate in Hispanic Philology, professor and editor in chief (and owner) of the cultural blog of reference The Stone of Sisifo , in which the Twitter threads have already been analyzed as a new literary discipline, also uses this communication technique to disseminate content.blog, spread curiosities on Twitter, how are you about the Hobbit:



On September 21, 1937 Tolkien publishes The Hobbit, one of the most popular books in children's literature pic.twitter.com/tWBy9U9keD


-Alejandro Gamero (@alexsisifo) September 21, 2017

Social studies, chewed within reach of a Tweet


Social studies and their debate have a very important space within social networks, and of course on Twitter, where it is increasingly common to find threads that explain a certain social behavior.


As the Loola Perez (@DoctoraGlas), a Philosophy graduate, social integrator and master's student in Sexology, says, « Twitter's threads are the new columns » [journalistic].


These new columns are quite useful when dealing with historically conflicting cultural studies, since it is possible to discuss them phrase by phrase, rather than other formats (such as scientific paper ) do not facilitate.These threads allow contact between readers with doubts and experts in some subject, such as the following Loola:



Many people have asked what determines that someone has a orientation of desire pedofila.Vereis...


-Loola Perez (@DoctoraGlas) September 9, 2016

Marta Iglesias (@migulios), PhD student at the INDP, speaks in the following Twitter thread on the perception of attractiveness from a scientific perspective.What makes us more or less attracted to a person? What does that have to do with biology, and what are the differences between females and males?



Since they helped me choose a topic, but I won't be able to give the talk, I open a thread on the winning topic: Perception of attractiveness.://t.co/ZWn9x59OQh


-Marta Iglesias (@migulios) September 9, 2017

It is increasingly common to study human beings within a nature-based framework, making their social, cultural behavior and technological a consequence of this nature. Rafael de la Rosa (@dragon_mecanico), biologist and thesis in Neurobiology, talks about how the LGBT + movement is integrated, supported by biology studies based on chromosomes:



🏳️‍🌈 Thread about why being LGBT + is something natural and good with a biological basis🍂


-Rafa de la Rosa (@dragon_mecanico) June 29, 2017

Science reporters use Twitter as a platform


We have talked on occasion about both the need for scientific dissemination and the large number of disseminators we have on the Internet.


Among them we can find Antonio Martinez Ron , journalist, popular science writer and writer of the books What do astronauts see when they close their eyes? and The naked eye .Talk in the following thread of the optical similarities between the structure of the human eye and the atmosphere:



Today I want to explain a very nice idea about the relationship between your eyes and the sky.Here is the #MEGAHILO pic.twitter.com/e8Cca4E7NH


-Antonio Martinez Ron (@aberron) August 17, 2017

The threads are not only used by tuitstars .The official accounts of numerous agencies use this formula to disseminate (and gain followers on Twitter in the process).A great example of this is the CSIC , Higher Council for Scientific Research, with your account @ CSIC.which in the following thread told us about the 6th Great Extinction, due to global warming:



Climate change could cause the extinction of a third of the parasites, altering the ecosystems https://t.co/1efhFuCNTc pic.twitter.com/AzlVSd1F7g


-CSIC (@CSIC) September 7, 2017

Building a thread on Twitter is simple in its mechanics, but it is not so much in its wording.other Twitter threads that have triumphed are as much for the research behind them as for the love to write them and present them to the social network.


To write a thread you need a topic that attracts and interests, but also a knowledge of it that provides quality and good writing that persuades you to read.Although this is not simple, Twitter threads are increasingly used.


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