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Re:Men Who Stare at Walls by throw0101c on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:06AM (#47934799)
> William Gibson's now defunct micro blog

Isn't that what X/Twitter basically is (was?), a "micro blog"?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

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Re:Men Who Stare at Walls by ethbr1 on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:08PM (#47936375)
His posts were typically slightly longer than twitter. "Miniblog"? Topic + 2-5 sentences.

Also, he's a published writer... so that's another substantial difference with average twitter.

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Re:Men Who Stare at Walls by MollyRealized on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:50PM (#47955754)
I have to admit, I had hoped that Bluesky would have countered that 300-character limitation and been a true microblog. I'm not sure why they chose to ape Twitter's limit.
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