From its very inception, Twitter faced complaints from the peanut gallery about its 140 character posting “limitation.” Over time new services sprung up to address the perceived “short-coming” of the microblogging service, from TwitLonger to Maxitweet to Glide Engage: essentially Twitter with 1,400 characters.

Some folks will probably get some value out of those services, but I’m going to make the argument that Twitter is the unique and special snowflake that it is precisely because of its 140 character “limitation.” If brevity is the soul of wit, we are all facing an unprecedented opportunity to be hilarious all day long. Let’s not squander it!

In some ways it’s natural to always want more. We’re an all-you-can-eat society that’s always-on, and we don’t take kindly to limitations in almost any form.

People had the same reaction when Flickr launched video uploads with a 90 second time constraint. At the time it seemed like 90 seconds just wasn’t good enough for anything. The family reunion, junior’s graduation, and cousin’s wedding c