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It doesn't matter that you find it frustrating. It matters that by forcing you to be concise twitter improves the reader experience. Twitter is optimized for r

by harryh 10y ago

It doesn't matter that you find it frustrating. It matters that by forcing you to be concise twitter improves the reader experience. Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

CodeWriter23 10y ago
Twitter is optimized for superficial reading. Some ideas are more complicated than a one-liner.
- harryh 10y ago
  Yes. Totally fair point.
- kriro 10y ago
  For those you could write a normal blogpost and tweet the url and a 140 character -len(url) abstract.
alphapapa 10y ago
> Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers. For a certain kind of reader.
dragonwriter 10y ago
> Twitter is optimized for readers, Twitter is optimized for SMS.