On the one hand, it does force you to be concise. There is a certain merit to having to distil your thoughts into a tight space -- perhaps even poetic.
On the flip side, people already have incredibly short attention spans. Nobody wants to read a well-stated case. They want a bunch of vapid one-liners, preferably reaffirming their preconceptions. Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits.
If you wanna develop your argument, go send a letter to the editor of the newspaper, grampa. Everybody else is looking for the next great thing, which will make Xitter look positively verbose. We've already got the Tikketytoks, but who the hell has time for three whole minutes?
Since when? Nobody means nought, and I know I am but one.
"Twitter is an endless stream of microscopic dopamine hits."
Right, but what happens when the synapses die from overstimulation?
Whenever a link lands me there I find tweets constrained by limits on the maximum text allowed. One can hardly state one's case let alone develop an argument in support of it.