Doing this distillation seemed to be too much trouble for many users. You see people splitting things to multiple tweets, using images or simply posting links.

Doing this distillation seemed to be too much trouble for many users. You see people splitting things to multiple tweets, using images or simply posting links. Trying to for example summarise interesting stuff you seen online to 140 chars is hard. Every increment in the character count makes it a bit easier. 140 to 280 has much larger effect that say 280 to 420, so I don't see slippery sloap here.