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Re:Giving you more characters by vacri on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:39AM (#15345397)
> the system forced you to reconsider how you said it until you got down to the bare essence of what you were trying to convey

... and stripping away context and nuance, and ultimately providing such a paucity that people these days have trouble recognising context and nuance. Twitter's played a major hand in the damage to people's attention spans and ability to interpret communications effectively. Recognising subtext no longer seems to be a thing anymore.

Re:Giving you more characters by zimpenfish on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @08:16AM (#15346975)
> Twitter's played a major hand in the damage to people's attention spans and ability to interpret communications effectively.

That, right there, is going to need a hefty wallop of [citation needed].

Re:Giving you more characters by vacri on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @08:56AM (#15347282)
> [citation needed]

- vacri, 6 hours ago.