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Subject:Re: this list - on twitter? From:Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:50:51 -0500
Combs, Richard wrote:
> IIRC, the size limit for tweets is a bit lower than the 160 characters
> for SMS messages. [...]
Perhaps Tara's point is that as pro. writers, if you can't comm.
succintly in 160 chars, you should try harder.
(112 characters, FWIW.)
Of course, I doubt this is what Tara meant, but perhaps it something
worth thinking about.
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