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Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by specialist on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:57PM (#13346871)
You probably already know that 140 char limit was a SMS medium restriction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXTMob

It may have made sense to honor the 140 char limit so long as TXTMOB/Twitter served as a SMS gateway, router, aggregator, whatever. But Twitter abandoned that notion early on.

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Re:I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, ... by ClayFerguson on Sunday January 08, 2017 @09:56PM (#13353656)
No I didn't know the 140 thing was from SMS. I just remember everybody talking about how ground-breaking it was at the time. Software developers tend to all agree Twitter was never an admirable technology but merely a gimmick that went viral.
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