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Medium Is the New Twitter — How to Increase Speed and Efficiency

Save time and preserve your sanity — write tweets not stories.

Patrick Peace
4 min readApr 8, 2020
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You poured your soul into an article. Maybe spent a couple of hours writing and a couple more editing. That’s half a day. Four hours for a single article. And then there’s the agonizing over the title and sub-title.

And we can’t forget the image. Looking for that perfect eye-popper that will mesmerize every pair of eyes on the planet towards your perfect presentation of literary greatness.

Peal your fingers off that mouse for a second and listen.

No matter how great your article, within a couple of days, it’s gone. Buried behind a million other articles and quickly fading into the sands of time.

Your article is relevant today. Existing for a morning or evening, then trailing off into the abyss of silence.

It’s dew on the grass at sunrise and a brief sunset at night.

How’s that for some fancy, schmancy words? Gone. A glimmer of clever thought, and now it’s gone.

Now here’s the important point:

The creator of Twitter turned his attention from Twitter to start Medium — think about that for a…

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Patrick Peace
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