Uh, just in general, people tend to react horrifically to long messages, ‘walls of text’.

… even on discussion boards, like here on lemmy, or as a first intro message to someone on some kind of dating app/site.

I’ve been using the internet since the mid 90s.

It did not used to be like this.

People thought of messages as letters, like emails.

Now, a lot of people will get viscerally angry or disgusted in basically nearly any digital context if you send a message that’s longer than roughly double the original Twitter character limit.

Hooray for normalizing slogans and soundbites in lieu of actual discourse, hooray for kicking off the trend of destroying our collective capacity to read multiple paragraphs at a time, great job Dorsey.