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Depends on what the goal is.

300 characters incentivizes driveby remarks rather than articulate conversations.

Twitter also has really bad content enforcement. Not inherent to the format, but it's worth consideration in the interest of practicality.

Who has time and energy for articulate conversations over the internet? What do we want, a social network for the few?

Usenet was fun while it lasted. But september will probably never end.

In fact, it's about to start.