To me, the strongest argument for this is that people are dodging the 140-char limit by, incredibly, posting IMAGES of the text they want to type but are not al

To me, the strongest argument for this is that people are dodging the 140-char limit by, incredibly, posting IMAGES of the text they want to type but are not allowed to, thus using two orders of magnitude more data. Which just makes a mockery of the entire limit concept to begin with. Just up the limit to what you need for a decent English paragraph and be done with it. Right now, you can't even write a complex sentence.