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Re:Some celebrities are ditching Twitter for Community by cyberferret on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:38PM (#22199100)
Am I incorrectly remembering that Twitter (Twtr) v1 was primarily to share tweets via SMS text messages? Hence the limit of 140 characters (+20 for the username to be added to the message)?

Is this just the wheel gone full circle?

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Re:Some celebrities are ditching Twitter for Community by dannyw on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:12AM (#22199755)
Platforms limit reach of participants with large audiences, in order to encourage them to buy ads.

Participants move away and build their own platform.

Advertising ruins every platform. Just look at Google even, a darling of the early 2000s.

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