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From #MicroBlogs to #MacroMessages

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Photo credit : <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/149902454@N08/35199109580/">Sole Treadmill</a> via <a href="https://visualhunt.com/re/43b878">Visual Hunt</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> CC BY</a> Jack Dorsey says its a product of the times we have been living in, especially the plethora of data, that is being consumed and constructed online. Over one completed days, millions of tweets, direct messages, polls and Twitter cards are being sent and used, and everyone seems hungrier for more!  Welcome to Twitter 2.0 ; where the characters for communication, are on the path towards doubling, except for certain South East Asian (SEA) languages like Japanese, where it's easy to communicate with brevity.  The  #280characters  move, being met with brickbats, critique and love from various quarters of the world, seems to be a strategic decision towards pushing  #Twitter towards b...