@paulg famously recommends to write simply. I wonder if that recommendation might change as the value of having your tweets be indecipherable to a particular audience grows
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Replying to @jaspergilley @antoniogm
Tweets are an extreme case for sure. But there have always been things one had to tiptoe around, even in essays. E.g. this was written in 2004, before Twitter existed. http://paulgraham.com/say.html
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My advice to write as simply as possible implicitly assumes you actually want everyone to be able to understand you. It's similar to the definition of a gentleman as a man who never unintentionally offends anyone. You should never unintentionally confuse the reader.
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