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• to even create a 6 second video of any interest requires some clever editing to produce a coherent narrative.
• People confuse arbitrary limits on social networks—Twitter's 140 character limit, Instagram's square aspect ratio and limited filters, to take two prominent examples—with their core asset, which is the network itself.
• Sure, the limits can affect the nature of the content shared, but Instagram is above else a pure and easy way to share visual content with other people and get their feedback. That they started allowing videos and now differing aspect ratios doesn't change the core value of the network, which is the graph.
• This is yet another example of users generating useful innovation on top of Twitter when it should be coming from within the company.
• One of the wonderful things about Twitter is that conversations between specific users can be read by other users.

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