Twitter's 140-character constraint functions like haiku, forcing economists to distill ideas to their essential core insight and strip away the rest, which is itself a core skill of economics.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

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Twitter is just a just another example that... Twitter gets me to basically just focus on what the big idea is and to strip away everything else

Source

Garett Jones on Macro and Twitter 02/22/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:36 AM

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