I don't follow the hype and when I was an active user I would get frustrated with my tweet limiting to so few characters.
here is what I had to do:
1. write tweet, fuck, over limit
2. abbrev words, fuck still low on limit
3. remove spaces, fuck still low on limit
4. remove words and punctuations, thinking "fuck so this is what search engine feels like when one stems words", not my tweet is so not English
5. fuck still over limit or incomplete, tweet the first thought, comment on the new tweet with the rest of my story.
But why this model? FB has a limit few thousands char limits for status but in practice, only few lines will ever written on most FB statuses. People who manage to write a complete story on FB status have something meaningful to write about.
I guarantee you that your audience wasn't frustrated by the fact that you had to jump through those hoops. You think all those politicians and celebrities and thought leaders don't have trouble fitting things in 140 characters? I'm not being too verbose, but I've just written 292 here. :)
And yet Facebook has vastly better information density on their desktop and mobile sites than Twitter manages. (see my comment elsewhere on this comment thread)
here is what I had to do:
1. write tweet, fuck, over limit
2. abbrev words, fuck still low on limit
3. remove spaces, fuck still low on limit
4. remove words and punctuations, thinking "fuck so this is what search engine feels like when one stems words", not my tweet is so not English
5. fuck still over limit or incomplete, tweet the first thought, comment on the new tweet with the rest of my story.
But why this model? FB has a limit few thousands char limits for status but in practice, only few lines will ever written on most FB statuses. People who manage to write a complete story on FB status have something meaningful to write about.