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If only we had some sort of a system for publishing longer articles on the Internet without having to cut them into 140 character pieces...

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You’re a madman.

280?

Please look up this thing called "Moore's Law"

As I understand it, every two years, the length of characters we can tweet will double indefinitely.

In a few more years you will be writing entire paragraphs on the web.

That comment was 219 characters, how?!?

Oh, you have to use Rust or Haskell to really get performance out of the character space. It's all about the language you use.

In ruby, th

Don't forget about jQuery. Webscale bro.

Burmashave.

That would require 7nm technology. Besides nobody will need more than 420 characters. Ever.

640 Charcters surly :-)

You'd think by now they'd add a "details" or body section to tweets, so 140 chars is used for a title or summary, and then you could have a standard blog post attached to them. That way people using SMS can still use them for whatever the hell they use them for.

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