Fully agree with your takeaway. Adding context on the character limit: > Twitter was designed to have 280 characters max per message. Twitter was designed to

Fully agree with your takeaway. Adding context on the character limit: > Twitter was designed to have 280 characters max per message. Twitter was designed to use 140 characters, plus room for 20 for a username to fix in the 160 char budget of an SMS message. Their upping it to 280 later was capitulating to the fact that nobody actually wants to send SMS sized messages over the internet.