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But imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words. Make the words cheap, and twitter wil
by dilap 11y ago
But imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words.
Make the words cheap, and twitter will turn into just another prolix platform in a sea of noise.
- derefr 11y agoNot if there are tools that abstract away all the difficulty. Type 10K chars into a box; hit post; magically the first 140 show up as a text and the rest as an image.
- dilap 11y agoNo, you've got my point backwards: Absent external effects, it's easier to write a long message than write concisely. Twitter in its current form imposes an artificial cost on long messages, which encourages you to do the extra work to write something short. Remove that cost, and you'll get more lazy, long messages. That's my theory, anyway.