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by aaron695 2119 days ago
I think the shortness of Twitter is why it's a vile toxic dump.

But I'd look into the Twitter message length change over -

ie. https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/twitter-length-study-do-long...

> previous generation habits

This is harder to understand. I'd say the telephone was what was important directly pre-internet. Letter's were quaint. $ per message mattered. Latency was huge. It's pretty complex.