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Re:Nice Threads by tomjen3 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:36PM (#15909748)
Twitter is very useful to broadcast to the world your thoughts and it forces you to take the extra time to make it short (lots of people disagree here, but my opinion is that if you cannot put your thoughts in a tweet or 2, you need to spend more time thinking about it).

There is a time and a place for long-form text, but that should never be because the writer has not taken the time to make the text short.

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Re:Nice Threads by eyelidlessness on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:27PM (#15911232)
Your comment here would not fit in a 280 character tweet (or 2 original 140 character tweets).

There's a nugget of wisdom in what you're saying, and it animates a lot of the backlash on Twitter for expanding to 280 in the first place. But I think the value isn't concision but clarity. Concision forces clarity in some contexts, for some people, but destroys it in many other circumstances.

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