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Nobody's arguing people will rant all the time. A lower frequency of longer texts is expected, even if Facebook didn't show it.

Does this include adding 23 chars for a link, and possibly also for images (which I think used to count as extra but no longer do)?

We don't need twitter to be another facebook.

Not sure why you've been down-voted. Twitter is so different from Facebook in terms of what it's primary use is, that it doesn't make sense to compare them, and while I wouldn't quite word my response this way, I agree with the sentiment that Facebook usage data doesn't tell us enough to predict Twitter usage under higher character limits.