Three points. 1. Practicing writing 140 character messages makes you better at writing 140 character messages. It's a point of faith that this skill will trans

Three points. 1. Practicing writing 140 character messages makes you better at writing 140 character messages. It's a point of faith that this skill will transfer to longer works. 2. A better title would be "Twitter as a framework for practice". What you'll find is that people who strive to get better, do so in any medium that allows it. People who don't, will fail to do so in any medium. 3. In code, this is called 'golf'. It's generally thought to a pleasant-but-useless practice (I assert). Why would this not also be true in this context?