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The Twitter thread, also known as the tweetstorm and the Twitter essay, has had a big year. Virginia Heffernan argued in Politico that the thread is the literary form of 2017. And now TechCrunch confirms that the service is testing a feature that would make it easier to tweetstorm. Twitter’s tradition of following the lead of its users has benefited the service mightily over the years—that’s how we got the hashtag, for example.