If he had the 280 characters that Twitter now proposes, it would probably be apocalypse now. For many world leaders, Twitter is now the de facto medium for political posturing. In India, the Narendra Modi government’s digitisation drive actually began with the shifting of pretty much all people-government communications to Twitter. On the downside, all those blonde Caucasian women with eerily similar profiles will now have to spend more time typing out remarkably similar tweets about the achievements of the BJP. As content saturates, chances are high that users will limit themselves to smaller and smaller niches, limiting their world view.

Source: The Hindu September 28, 2017 18:45 UTC