Some talk about Steve Jobs's reality distortion field.
Your quote offers another example: "Having the small character limit really forces you how to get your message across very succinctly". All perfectly logical.
Do you really, really, really believe this? That a limitation at 140 characters is helps people express their thoughts better? It doesn't strike you in any way, limiting? Are there some good thoughts that need 200 characters?
Don't get me wrong: having such a limit has advantages to the readers. But if you think of it, twitter is not so different from a giant blog RSS feed which only broadcasts the titles of the posts...