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sigsergv on Nov 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter is Pivoting

Twitter and email are both the same sort of medium.

pavel_lishin on Nov 18, 2012 [–]

My point was that I would use a telephone or skype. Using twitter for the wrong purpose and complaining about it is like complaining that it's hard to hammer in a nail with a screwdriver.

swores on Nov 18, 2012 | [–]

Just to be clear, I wasn't complaining about it, I was saying I think the character limit is a good thing.

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