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It doesn't matter that you find it frustrating. It matters that by forcing you to be concise twitter improves the reader experience.

Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.



Twitter is optimized for superficial reading. Some ideas are more complicated than a one-liner.


Yes. Totally fair point.


For those you could write a normal blogpost and tweet the url and a 140 character -len(url) abstract.


> Twitter is optimized for readers,

Twitter is optimized for SMS.


> Twitter is optimized for readers, not writers.

For a certain kind of reader.




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