It's really tricky to fit a good excerpt in a tweet sometimes.
miniblog.
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It's interesting that Twitter sets limits on content size, but not distribution.
What if the number of retweets/comments on a tweet was rate limited, or had a cap for new users Would it promote slower or thoughtful conversation?
C.f. Stack Overflow limiting new user abilities.
Twitter is amazingly, disappointingly ephemeral. We call it 'micro-blogging', but I often read blog posts that are over a year old.
I can't remember when I last read a tweet that old.
GCC 5: Faster binaries, better warning, nicer output, more standards support. Fantastic, but too much to fit in a tweet!