Technology is supposed to be liberating. Often people use a tweet to link to an image containing lots of text. That's an image (often JPG with lovely compression artefacts) rather than something better suited to representing text, like, er, text.
Using an image to represent text is dumb. It means you can't do much with the text except read it. Many people are lucky to even read it, as it's not going to be compatible with browser settings which make text bigger, higher contrast, or synthesise it as speech. Nobody can use copy and paste, or save it somewhere. Search engines can't index it. In short, this is turning information back into restrictive data. Which is particularly crap as it started out as information (someone typed it). All that was required was preservation of that information!!
Again, technology is supposed to be liberating.
Apparently they're now experimenting with doubling the character limit to 280 characters.
How about keeping the 140 character tweets (so you can rifle through the chaff easily enough, and it's still all realtime and light), but tweets should support longer text attachments, which you can get to by clicking on the tweet.
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