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> Twitter has/had character limits. Instagram was primary for photo sharing. if you try to cram a long political rant in an instagram photo or description.. it is fighting against the app format and limitations. This sculpts the apps "culture"

A big part of Twitter’s “culture” is creating “threads” to work around the character limit, which kind of defeats the point.



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