Twitter’s power

From Pacific Standard: "What makes Twitter so powerful is its short length. This has side effects. It forces a terse tone in messages and eradicates the existence of nuance. This can be lessened through 'threaded tweets' or 'tweetstorms,' but their effectiveness depends on how the audience receives the message; unless they come to the entire thread after the fact and start at the beginning, they're reading short messages that may appear laconic and unfriendly. (Adding to this is an inability to use bold, italicized, or underlined text, meaning users stress messages with capitalization or star symbols — like *this* — which encourages more abrasive messaging and further squeezes out the ability for nuance.)"