What is your opinion of Twitter?

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Not Much

It just seems like a way for people to overinform about things that don't really matter much to others.

And, as to the character similarity, there is a difference between keeping a post brief and concise and having an actual limit to the number of characters.

If someone WANTS to expound beyond 140 characters, they can, so there is a big difference to me. And, i'm not one of those who generally writes long posts.

So, i'd say the big difference is that you CAN'T post anything substantive on Twitter. There just isn't room. But, in a discussion forum, one is never that limited.

Sure, the similarities exist. There are fluff posts here. There are the +1's, and "Good Post" posts, but in almost every thread in GD, there is one post that has merit that goes WELL beyond an arbitrarily low character limit.

The difference may not be night and day, but they're real.
GAC