> "It's an entirely different statement."
Which is the point. The character limit creates miscommunication because people wind up submitting something other than what they set out to communicate.
> "Those are side effects of not stopping to think about how to effectively convey a greater-than-140-characters thought in less than 140 characters (without changing its meaning.)"
So you're agreeing that Twitter, as a medium, presents a unique challenge to how most humans communicate in most other media and requires special consideration and effort?
That doesn't actually sound like a disagreement.
Why not shorten it to "some Philadelphians suck"? It's shorter and, arguably, more accurate.
>The 140 character limit and general focus on brevity encourages people to drop specificity and shift to bold proclamations and absolutes.
I disagree that the limit encourages vagueness, bold proclamations, and absolutes. Those are side effects of not stopping to think about how to effectively convey a greater-than-140-characters thought in less than 140 characters (without changing its meaning.)