to get interactions of twitter vs ao3: as a reader, interacting on twitter has become so much more difficult i. the past couple of monts…half the time i like tweets, suddenly the likes are gone, trying to qrt gives me errors, and i’ve multiple times had my account locked for “bot-like behaviour” when supporting an author by liking every tweet in a thread. it sucksssss :(
i still read on twitter bc some of my fave authors only post there, but ao3 is a million times better and easier…esp if updating irregularly, because i can actually sort my bookmarks by date updated. also on ao3 i regularly discover old fics as well! but on twitter, unless it gets a massive amount of interactions, old threads will never pop up when i search. i love authors who have twitter so i can support them on a personal/more direct level, but for reading? i would really encourage putting everything on there for those who can/want. for socmed au’s you can even do ao3 formatting by searching “ao3 twitter” or “ao3 workskins” on ao3, there’s so many resources!!