[gbaygon]

Personally I find interesting the general idea that adding constraints to a system leads to creative outlets, forcing the participants to break entablished thinking patterns. The fun stuff here is not the content, but the alternative paths the writer has to take to convey the message.

[confounded]

Indeed, the 140 character constraint was one of the things that made Twitter novel.

[feld]

No that's what makes it suck. The limitation was for SMS compatibility, but the reality is that it makes it impossible to have meaningful discourse.

[lolsal]

So don't have meaningful discourse over SMS/twitter. Use email/phone/forums/...

[feld]

Too much email. Too many people I know don't want to share their phone numbers. Forums are generally terrible.

Try using Mastodon and you'll find it's twitter with meaningful conversations. 500 characters is a game changer.

[porpoisemonkey]

Wouldn't the asy workaround b to writ what you wantd to writ but drop th "3"?

Even without the e's you can probably infer meaning with a high probability of success.

[scadge]

Replacing 'e' with similar symbols like '3' is also not allowed. That's the point :)

[Sophira]

It's not actually said that "3" should swap with it - it's a substitution for that symbol.

It's a proposal to post normally but to omit any symbols that don't fit by just not typing anything.

[odisbey]

R3TURN