Hot take: Tweets communicate at near the channel capacity for text-centric messages. But, this has the effect of compelling everyone to communicate superficial variants of the same thing over and over and over again, so we're just immersed in wildly excessive, novel redundancy.
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Replying to @generativist
I was thinking more on this, do u think that gifs and other visual memes have proliferated to make up for the limitations of 240 characters?
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Replying to @Orwelian84
I think they do by leveraging shared (by some) cultural context.
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