[KirinDave]

This is fair, I should have thought more about the list.

For Japanese, I don't think the way people talk casually to one another is as amenable to compression as newspaper headlines

But surely for Thai you're in a sub-optimal boat?

[sirn]

This is completely anecdotal, but I have an alternative Twitter account where I interact with Japanese people I know, and I rarely hit the 140 characters limit except when I’m in a heated debate (or when I’m VERY excited about something).

For Thai, yeah, this one is a little more complicated. I’ve commented about this in sibling thread.

[KirinDave]

I tried to rig up a Shavian chat group and we just hit the wall over and over. It was frustrating so we moved to Matrix.