So the big internet news is that Twitter are experimenting with 280 character tweets!. Some are against this. I just don't really care. I very rarely use Twitter these days. I can appreciate that it can be a good place to keep up with breaking news, but most of that is really irrelevant to me.
I think Twitter has struggled to really make money despite hundreds of millions of users and it seems to be hyped by people in the media who love it. 'Normal' people are more likely to use Facebook. Perhaps 
I was into microblogging for a while. I used Twitter and then identi.ca came along. This was a decentralised, open source platform that was big amongst freedom-loving folk. That also experimenting with allowing longer posts, but I think the purists won out there too.
The 140 limit only exists because Twitter originally allowed you to post with an SMS message. People have adapted to that and so it seems alien to change it.
For now Steemit is my main outlet and news source. I can browse the feed to see what's interesting without having to decode cryptic abbreviations.
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