Ladies and Gentlemen, are long paragraphs getting you down? Do you find your attention wandering before that webpage even has a chance to load? Are you having trouble making sense of lengthy stories that develop over the course of several thousand words? We have the remedy you seek!
Friends, kindly cast your gaze to the far right side of the page. There you will see (under the heading "In Brief") the latest, THE greatest, THE shortest improvement to the site: microposts. Guaranteed never to be longer than 140 characters. You have our solemn promise on that.
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Posted by: m.thew | October 29, 2008 at 09:47 AM
Nope. See what Language Log has to say about it. http://tinyurl.com/yus54o
Posted by: Sara | October 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM
140 characters or fewer, no?
Posted by: Jeff | October 27, 2008 at 11:21 PM