Snark aside, I do sympathize. It isn't Twitter's fault that it became so popular that very important people have taken to it to post things that really do not b

Snark aside, I do sympathize. It isn't Twitter's fault that it became so popular that very important people have taken to it to post things that really do not belong on a 140-character-per-message service. I also can't entirely blame the people using Twitter improperly: they need to get a message out to as many people as possible, and far too many only read Twitter; so they can't exactly ignore the platform in principle. I'm not suggesting Twitter turn into Livejournal and have no limits. I'd just like to see people not get penalized for having a language with bad character-to-word ratios, for spelling out words properly, or for having a richer vocabulary. There has to be a middle-ground between 140 characters and 300KB of text with lots of pictures and video. And if people really need to go over a reasonable limit, Twitter can streamline the process of writing a blog-post and submitting a t.co link to it. Something people already do anyway, just through other services where Twitter loses the page views (and opportunities for advertising.)