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Off topic, but this is exactly the scenario that Twitter wants to replace by expanding the tweet size limit. Instead of a picture of text, we could expand to real (presumably searchable) text.

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Right. Perhaps they can begin by rolling this out only to individuals who have verified accounts.

I think it would be nifty to treat it as if it were a specialized form of embedded media like pictures and videos. Wall of text as a media type, and maybe even support links to, say, pastebin-type sites (or don't, this parts not critical). Then you still have tweets as the basic unit of Twitter and preserve some consistency.

Look up Twitlonger. Various clients have that built in, and it basically but the first few words in the tweet alongside a link to the full text.

Look up OStatus. I don't know why people place all their eggs in one walled-garden basket.

Network effect, basically.

Everyone is on Twitter, therefore everyone is on Twitter.

ha, thats funny. I read it was twitter.com and assumed the tweet would not say more than what was in the title and jumped right here to the comments.

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