I think the shortness of Twitter is why it's a vile toxic dump. But I'd look into the Twitter message length change over - ie. https://medium.com/@kurtgessler

I think the shortness of Twitter is why it's a vile toxic dump. But I'd look into the Twitter message length change over - ie. https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/twitter-length-study-do-longer-tweets-drive-more-engagement-and-referral-traffic-3dd0781363ff https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/twitter-length-study-do-long... > previous generation habits This is harder to understand. I'd say the telephone was what was important directly pre-internet. Letter's were quaint. $ per message mattered. Latency was huge. It's pretty complex.