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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2014

    Anyone making a collection of quotations in 100 years will notice many from our time are < 140 chars. How long will this last?

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      2. Keith Rabois‏ @rabois 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg most key quotations in history have been < 140 characters. cc@jack

        5 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @rabois

        @rabois @paulg That or we no longer have a medium to discuss the longer ones.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Keith Rabois‏ @rabois 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @patrickc

        @patrickc @paulg Can you invest that next?

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      5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @rabois

        @rabois @patrickc Longer Twitter is one of the ideas I've been waiting for. It needs a little more than that, but not much.

        4 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      6. Keith Rabois‏ @rabois 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @patrickc I was thinking more of a disappearing Twitter. But perhaps one could earn Stellars by posting Long Tweets of merit.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Tim O'Neil‏ @tim_bluenose 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @rabois

        @rabois @paulg @patrickc anything under 140 chars if free and micro(crypto)currency for each character above. Monetize blowhards & arguments

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      8. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 10 Aug 2014
        Replying to @tim_bluenose

        @tim_bluenose @rabois @patrickc Not bad, but you also need to figure out what gets it initial critical mass.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Steve‏ @sjiang 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg many quotes from the past are < 140. Concise expressiveness is not new.

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      1. WillBlaze‏ @willblaze 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg brevity is the soul of wit - shkspr

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      1. Scott Primordial Darkness Gosnell‏ @infinite_me 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg Alas, only the emoji from this era will be preserved intact.

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      1. Jimmy Vosika‏ @JimmyVosika 11 Aug 2014
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        @paulg 140 char? Nah, all future quotes will start out @pmarca 1/… @pmarca 2/… @pmarca 3/… @pmarca 4/… @pmarca 5/… @pmarca 6/… @pmarca 7/…

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      1. Subrahmanyam KVJ‏Verified account @SuB8u 10 Aug 2014
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        .@paulg Past quotes too were concise.What separate current quotes is the number of grammar sins we commit to squeeze in that perfect quote.

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      1. Andrei Kryssov‏ @andreikryssov 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg and they'll wonder why the ones from @pmarca begin with numbers.

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      1. Michael Schade‏ @sch 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg Until we find a good way to quote @pmarca-style tweet streams.

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      1. codeHobbyist‏ @codeHobbyist 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg maybe create a startup for quotes only, that also crawls the web for plagiarism?

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      1. Yorke E. Rhodes III‏ @yorkerhodes 13 Aug 2014
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        .@paulg theorizing that most #tweets are read on a #mobileapp & not SMS predicts 140 char limit raise -@twitter verify -pics & vid count too

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      1. Jeremy Lizakowski‏ @jlizakowski 12 Aug 2014
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        @paulg Quotes aren't getting shorter, but the source documents are. Speeches and papers don't fit in 140 chars.

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      1. No-ahhhh! Spooker‏ @noahlz 11 Aug 2014
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        .@paulg "Brevity is the soul of wit" @OweinReese

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      1. ⓜ‏ @madospace 11 Aug 2014
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        @paulg Yea, they will have a new framework "If you cannot fit your quotes in 140 chars, then probably its good idea to write a book" :-D

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      1. Christopher Donohµe‏ @donohuechris 10 Aug 2014
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        @paulg in the entirety of humanity most notable quotes are <140 chars.

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