When a conversation on Twitter gets so crowded that replies contain more handles than actual comments, the result is a tipping Twitter canoe. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Twitter Canoe”
Grant, you probably already know this term, but it’s new to me, Twitter canoe.
Oh, yeah.
So a Twitter canoe is a public conversation between two people on Twitter.
And usually if you come in from the outside and join in that conversation, you are overturning their canoe, right?
Yeah, yeah.
It gets loaded with so many of the usernames in that one tweet that is like a canoe.
It’s just too much people.
And there’s no room for text.
It just spills off the end.
Twitter canoe.
Yeah, Twitter doesn’t handle lots of conversation very well at all.
No.
Twitter canoe and way with words, too.
Yes, we’d love to have a conversation with you.
Or you can tweet us at Wayword.
