A tweet caught my attention today when I complained the lack of Twitlonger in Kiwi, the Twitter client I am using… saying that Twitlonger and Deck.ly defeats the purpose of Twitter. Since Twitter is Microblogging in 140 chars, typing more than 140 chars will make it a macroblog?

Consider this… You are on a mobile phone and someone posts a long tweet… Since most mobile Twitter clients don’t really show the whole message, you have to click on the link and wait until the full tweet loads. Sounds great right? Depends… it’s more of an inconvenience. But what if you are on the go and need to send a long message on Twitter? It depends on the situation…

If you are going to write a long update on Twitter, you may as well make a blog post on a personal blog, Tumblr or Posterous… so that people don’t have to read through the tweet and realize that the tweet continues onto a link… For mention replies, they are okay because you probably don’t want to hassle people with multiple replies and it’s not worthwhile to post on a blog.