I work for the Internet which, among other things, means that it's expected of me to be on the cutting edge of all things technological. So, to fulfill my role as a hip, tech-savvy arbiter of taste, I decided to sign up for the newest social networking piece-of-shit,
Twitter, as a way of saying "Look at me, I'm slowly stumbling my way into technological relevancy about two months after your parents." Well, Twitter isn't all sunshine and fellatio (in fact, there's almost none at all), and can actually be quite dangerous...
Twitter Has a Character Limit Before getting into why this is dangerous, I just want to say right off the bat that I don't even understand
why they'd want a word limit. What, Twitter is supposed to be about connecting people but not
too much? We should use Twitter to break news stories, but not if the information extends beyond a certain number of words? What if this trend continued and the next hot new version of Twitter had even less words? Would all of the breaking news stories read "Politician dead- plne crash, possible fire located in usa" ? It seems like they just arbitrarily cut it off at a certain point for the sole purpose of saying "See? We're totally different from email and instant messaging. We're