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Personally, I feel like I need 280 characters to express a simple and complete English-phrased thought. As an example, this comment does not fit within their li

• Nadya 11y ago
  >I need 280 characters to express a simple and complete English-phrased thought. For example, this comment doesn't fit in their limit. The above comment would fit, removes unnecessary words, and gets the same point across. I feel the limit helps people be more brief, although sometimes brevity loses a bit of the human emotion or necessary nuance. The character limit is pointless nowadays, due to people using 1/n, 2/n, 3/n to chain tweets together. Even Snowden did this today and he just joined Twitter... http://i.imgur.com/MaAX7Io.png http://i.imgur.com/MaAX7Io.png
  • pcunite 11y ago
    >> remove unnecessary words ... get the same point across true, but I want to "express" something, not just put words into peoples eyes.
    • infogulch 11y ago
      But at twitter The People have made a decision with their feet that they'd rather have neutered brevity than your fully expressed thought.
      • GauntletWizard 11y ago
        There's room for a product that is not fully featured, especially one that is intentionally not fully featured. Constraints are often a good thing for art. The novel "Gadsby", written without the letter E, is not the finest point of english literature, but is certainly novel and better for it. Limitations, speaking eloquently, and conveying your message through simple form has an appeal. Reducing the number of long screeds and distilling arguments to concise, short points has appeal. To quote an old adage: Brevity is the soul of wit.
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  • SilasX 11y ago
    >>For example, this comment doesn't fit in their limit. >The above comment would fit, Yeah, but then you're into "this statement is false" territory ...