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On the contrary, I would argue that conversations of more than 140 characters are not conversations at all. They're speeches, talks, blog p

You should have stopped there and waited for reply. Listening is important, but maybe it is better to finish your thought when it makes sense, not on some random limit?



I easily could have made my comment shorter or split into two, were I expecting it to be pushed out to many people via SMS.


It does not make conversation any more natural. Not to mention, that I don't remember when did I have a phone unable to accept a long text and send in whatever number of SMSes needed.




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