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Some unsolicited\\u2014and probably unwelcome\\u2014advice on where Twitter should go from here.
\\n\\n\\u201cI didn\\u2019t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.\\u201d Mark Twain\\u2019s life did not overlap Twitter\\u2019s by nearly a century, but he still managed to provide the single best commentary of what Twitter is, and should continue to be. Brevity is Twitter\\u2019s essence and that should never change. Any idea which takes more than 280 characters clearly needs more work, a modern day Twain might have said. Twitter\\u2019s enforced brevity is not a constraint. It\\u2019s liberation. Forcing my verbose, disorganized thoughts into 50 words or less makes them better, not worse.
\\n\\nApart from that one thing, however, almost everything else about Twitter needs to change...
\\n\\nListen to the rest by clicking the play button, above. The text version of this essay can be found on Medium where it was published contemporaneously. They key image for this episode is Twitter Headquarters on Market Steet in San Francisco, California. (credit: Shutterstock)
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