I can't find the reference at the moment, but I think the Watsonian explanation for it is that he's afraid of having a single tweet taken out of context so he leaves those "stubs" to indicate that there's context before and after. In theory he'd love having the whole context all in one place.
My favorite example being his record-setting 208-tweet 'shng one day in 2017, where he googleshnged for over 5 hours straight, 10:44PM to 3:51AM, then got back in the saddle at 8:06 PM the next day, resuming mid-sentence and continuing to 2:53AM.
How many characters/words was this screed, may I ask? For a """writer""", this seems extremely slow.
Jake is a really slow writer. If you ever catch him in the middle of a Googleshng, it can take him forever to say nothing and finally get back to his concluding point which was the same as what he started with. I think he must be spending like 20 minutes or more writing some of his single tweets because I have no idea why it will take him so long to continue paragraphs.
The first night: 1823 words, 11010 characters.
That would actually be a reasonable output for professional writing. It isn't for logorrhea that looks like the insane babbling of a meth freak though. I can't imagine how he wouldn't be muted pooping out these turds continually because if you actually tried to read them while he was googleshnging, it would be maddening to wait a half hour for this fat lunatic to finish a sentence.
In this particular example he was churning out the tweets at the rate of about one every 3 or 4 minutes. But even so, no human is going to sit there for hours waiting for 100 of them.
Even among other people who write googleshngs, I've never seen anyone use Twitter in the completely autistic way Jake does. Why wouldn't he just write the whole googleshng and then post it all at once? Is he just too dumb to automate that? Even on 4chan if you had some really long greentext you could save it out into text files and then queue them up to autopost.
You can do this on Twitter now, when you start writing a post you can click to add a next tweet in a thread and it creates a "draft" you can post all at once. It's been on Twitter at least since 2019, maybe earlier.
Not only is it difficult to read a Shng one post at a time, it negatively affects his writing. He posts every thought as it occurs to him and it’s not possible for him to edit. Every rant is a series of over-complicated metaphors and irrelevant diversions with no structure. If he composed his rants before posting, they might actually be readable.
I think he still believes that if he keeps wailing, eventually someone will take pity on him and give him that highly paid game dev job/writing position/plain-looking dangerhair girlfriend.
And the thing is, he did get pity jobs that way. Every time he wrote page-fillers for a Paizo monster book, that was pity work. Missile Command was presumably the same sort of deal. When it comes to whining for pity, he succeeded about as much as it's possible to succeed without being a media cause celebre. If he had taken the opportunities he was given and really knocked it out of the park, turning in top-quality material on-time with no drama, he'd be working in the game industry for real by now.
Because he couldn't ask her to, since his only means of contact was on Twitter!
That seriously doesn't even make any sense. When you consider how lazy Jake is, you think on the one kind of "work" he does (screeching hysterically and begging for money in gigantic googleshngs) that he'd figure out the simple way that's already available to make it really easy to do.
And if only he'd delete the 'one' offending tweet, he could sign up for a blue checkmark and have access to the holy grail edit button along with the googleshng-length tweet capacity. The timing of the Untwittering of Jake is just perfect.
Done. I'm personally hoping for the "Medicab Cross-Country assassination roadtrip" arch.
