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Just like I've never been on Instagram, I have no urge to join this site, but your criticism is still misguided.

Placing a constraint on a creative endeavour is a old and time-tested way of tickling creativity. Pre Twitter, people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose. Sure, it's a strained at time, but there's little denying that Twitter has taught a lot of us a lot about getting to the point, quickly.



> people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose

Still can't. (Oh, the irony!)


> Pre Twitter, people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose.

People didn't text and IM before Twitter?


At least, they didn't do in public. IM is also a one-to-one conversation, unlike Twitter.




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