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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-09-11 06:55 PM
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Low-Bandwidth Pictures From the 1980's
i don't have Twitter, but I understand that it makes up for low-bandwidth by being instantaneous. Because you only get 140 characters you're forced to compress your message to as few words as possible. Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but the popularity of Twitter comes from its immediacy, not the space it allows you.

This is why I'm befuddled by reports that Weiner sent pictures of himsrlf on Twitter. Here is what the pictures from the 80's used to look like:

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