Seems like one possible solution is to increase the character limit, but also increase the "pain" a user has to go through to use the additional characters (my

Seems like one possible solution is to increase the character limit, but also increase the "pain" a user has to go through to use the additional characters (my ghetto solution would be to use a captcha to unlock the higher char limit). That way people would only use the additional chars if they really needed them, reducing noise from otherwise unnecessarily long tweets.