Yes, extremely. I receive questions from time to time for which the answer is complicated (and if I simplify the answer, the important nuance will be lost). I usually write my response in a gist and tweet a link to it.

But the thing is: Twitter is extremely easy to use and the barrier to tweeting is extremely low, more so than email. People are more inclined to tweet than to send an email, even for complex subjects. As much as I dislike it, this is how things are, so better accept it and use it to your advantage than trying to fight it or complain about it.

But why hasn't a twitter clone/alternative that would allow more than 140 characters taken off yet then ?

There's an interesting startup that I think does that. It's called Facebook.

Then why are people using Twitter then ? You cant say Facebook is like Twitter with more characters in the messages,it simply doesnt work.

Because Twitter has a lower barrier to entry. Yes the 140 character limit sucks. But because of the character limit, people are more inclined to open Twitter in the first place. The psychological advantage of that outweights the disadvantage of hitting the 140 character limit later, at least for users.

This seems like the premise of an Onion article...

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