Comment by twic
5 years ago
This doesn't seem all that far from the art of writing tweets which are exactly 280 characters. Start by writing what you mean straightforwardly, then go back and edit it down. First restructure sentences, then replace words, then elide grammatical words, then juggle punctuation.
Now try doing thousands of them consecutively.
Extremely tedious (IMO), but totally possible if I for some reason wanted to. I've often had a long tweet (it's often an effective customer support avenue, but the character limit isn't conducive to conveying detail..) but as GP says, it's just a case of writing what you want and then whittling it down with a bit of rewording/rephrasing/abbreviation.
Thousands consecutively would 'just' take thousands of times longer, it'd be O(n), I just don't have any desire to do that, it's not fun for me.