Because it will impress uneducated people with how much smaller (in terms of screen real estate) the resulting message is. EDIT: Ohhh, I know, and because twit

Because it will impress uneducated people with how much smaller (in terms of screen real estate) the resulting message is. EDIT: Ohhh, I know, and because twitter cares about characters. So you can use this to put essays into tweets.