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Someone explain again why we traded talking for 144 characters...

Because in the beginning SMS support was important and the 140 character limit worked well with the SMS 160 character limit.
I still mourn the shorter format. It forced people to use Twitter more like feed of links and events, which makes sense as it was competing with the open standard RSS and Atom at the time (more specifically popular feed readers using them).

With longer content, media and replies added in, it started closing itself in a bubble and becoming about Twitter being its own thing walled off from the rest of the world, a concept significantly different than Twitter started as. Maybe it also seems more monetizable, but there can be a debate on this.

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He doesn't pay enough taxes to need that big of a writeoff.
For one, you seem unaware what a tax write off is. Burning $100 for tax writeoff that saves you $20 of that money still means you lost $80. Let's ignore the fact Elon Musk has no such taxes, nor he owns the company by himself (he has massive co-investors and a $13 billion dollar loan).