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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by harryh on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:34PM (#11710170)
It doesn't matter that you find it frustrating. It matters that by forcing you to be concise twitter improves the reader experience.

Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by CodeWriter23 on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:24PM (#11710371)
Twitter is optimized for superficial reading. Some ideas are more complicated than a one-liner.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by harryh on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:49PM (#11710459)
Yes. Totally fair point.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by kriro on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @02:53AM (#11711772)
For those you could write a normal blogpost and tweet the url and a 140 character -len(url) abstract.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by dragonwriter on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:33PM (#11710405)
> Twitter is optimized for readers,

Twitter is optimized for SMS.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by alphapapa on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:29PM (#11710390)
> Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

For a certain kind of reader.

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