Sticking to 140 would be a good standard for a microblogging standard since it would allow you to syndicate out to Twitter and you could emulate the API and aut

Sticking to 140 would be a good standard for a microblogging standard since it would allow you to syndicate out to Twitter and you could emulate the API and automatically have other apps support that character limit. If you go beyond 140 it is then no longer a microblog post, but rather just an ordinary blog post.