I never understood why Twitter has a character limit. It reduces discussion to tiny empty soundbites. People get around it via "Twitter threads", which are a gi

I never understood why Twitter has a character limit. It reduces discussion to tiny empty soundbites. People get around it via "Twitter threads", which are a giant pain in the ass to create (vs. writing a simple post) and navigate through. Does Twitter just hold on to the character limit for nostalgia purposes? I mean if they really wanted to keep that limit, at the least why not create a separate Twitter without a character limit as an experiment, and see what the demand is?