How Twitter makes you a better writer
Sunday, January 25, 2009 by Dave Winer.
Twitter forces you to write concisely, and that makes for crisper, more direct, easier to read copy. 
I was reminded of this when reading a piece written by Dan Santow at Edelman PR, who offers a list of phrases that can be replaced by single words without loss of meaning.
I realized you never see these phrases in Twitter-talk because there's no space for flowery prose with only 140 characters to express an idea.
Thanks to Steve Rubel for the pointer.
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