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Re:Jack Dorsey addresses Twitter's character limit by kndyry on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:03PM (#10853283)
Playing devil's advocate, my first response would be to register accounts for, say, the 2,500 most common English words and then compose some rather nice essays.

@Yes, @something @like @that @might @prove @quite @funny.

Re:Jack Dorsey addresses Twitter's character limit by devindotcom on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:06PM (#10853316)
Perhaps make it only the 1000 most common words and rename Twitter "Thing Sayer"?
Re:Jack Dorsey addresses Twitter's character limit by cyrus_ on Thursday January 07, 2016 @03:27AM (#10856718)
Length of mentions could be capped at 140 to prevent this hack.