> For a long time now, Twitter’s proponents have argued that Twitter’s 140 character limit was an advantage. It keeps posts brief and to the point. Once you use

> For a long time now, Twitter’s proponents have argued that Twitter’s 140 character limit was an advantage. It keeps posts brief and to the point. Once you use Google+ for a bit, though, you come to realize that those constraints are really just annoying at the end – and likely hard to explain to a mainstream user anyway. I have to say, I really disagree with that one. I didn't truly appreciate the value of the 140 character limit until I spent some time using Buzz. Once people are free to dump an entire essay into your timeline, it ceases to feel like a quick visit that I can pull 20 or 30 bite-sized nuggets of interaction out of, and more like as RSS feed -- an enormous backlog of reading I can never hope to catch up on and stop caring about.