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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by dilap on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @12:32PM (#10844575)
But imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words.

Make the words cheap, and twitter will turn into just another prolix platform in a sea of noise.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by derefr on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:54PM (#10846740)
Not if there are tools that abstract away all the difficulty. Type 10K chars into a box; hit post; magically the first 140 show up as a text and the rest as an image.
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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by dilap on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:15PM (#10855734)
No, you've got my point backwards:

Absent external effects, it's easier to write a long message than write concisely.

Twitter in its current form imposes an artificial cost on long messages, which encourages you to do the extra work to write something short.

Remove that cost, and you'll get more lazy, long messages.

That's my theory, anyway.

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