In 280 characters, you can just have twice the amount of snark. Just look at... what the hell, look at Twitter as it is today. It's not like you can't be wholes

In 280 characters, you can just have twice the amount of snark. Just look at... what the hell, look at Twitter as it is today. It's not like you can't be wholesome in 140 characters or less. People have been texting wholesome things to one another in 160 characters or less since SMS, and non-Latin-alphabet folks in 70 or less. But peer-to-peer SMS doesn't make you a self-proclaimed standup comedian complete with an audience and limelight, doesn't give you likes and retweets, and Twitter gives it all to you. This is all the difference: engagement and gamification. You see, quite often, when you criticize the project, it has the tendency to leak to the person. Even if that person's hide is exceptionally thick, it just takes the right amount of acid to eat through it.