The 140 character limit is actually a nice feature. It's like reading a stream of headlines rather than parsing articles and animated gifs. G+'s circles are kin

The 140 character limit is actually a nice feature. It's like reading a stream of headlines rather than parsing articles and animated gifs. G+'s circles are kind of a pain to manage and post to. In addition, they ruin the serendipity that you find in your twitter stream. For example, discovering that a programmer acquaintance also enjoys running or one of your favorite bands. I'm not saying that G+ is going to fail, but it doesn't make twitter archaic or obsolete.