When you're limited to 140 characters, aesthetics become essential for communication. This is Twitter's blessing and its curse: It's a game we willingly play t

When you're limited to 140 characters, aesthetics become essential for communication. This is Twitter's blessing and its curse: It's a game we willingly play to communicate within its limitations. Even the greatest artists have to paint within the canvas. By making the canvas ludicrously small, limitations become a democratizing force.