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where am i wrong? twitter - as i understand - started as a phone-based application which had a 140-character limitation. where did that limit come from?
It did not. It took 4 years before they launched an official mobile app. The char limit was solely a marketing ploy.
Think you replied to the wrong level comment :)
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you're right, i'm wrong. i addressed it in another comment.
Apparently somewhere here people have finally convinced you that you are entirely wrong about the origin of twitter.
But the word you've been looking for (which also describes Mastodon, Calkey, etc) is microblog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging
The limit was there because in its early incarnation it allowed post-submission via SMS. SMS already had the 140-character limit for other technical reasons due to the GSM networks.