Comment by angoragoats

> That limit actually doesn't apply to premium users/bluechecks, and he's using the other features like bold text.

I can't keep track of the flailing over at Twitter, especially because I don't have an account. Regardless, it's not all that relevant to what I was saying; maybe I got the reason wrong, but the fact remains that the vast majority of people who I see trying to post longer content on Twitter do it via multiple posts.

As a related aside, it baffles me why people still use the site when many superior alternatives are available.

> The problem with long posts like that is one, they're annoying to read because when you open one up you don't know how much of a time commitment they will be, and two, you can't reply to just part of them.

Those don't actually seem like problems to me.