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I think it's just a human problem. You or I may like to read long form journalism, but we're in the extreme minority. It's not dying because it was so hugely profitable.
Logistically too, if you're trying to parse through the top 100 tweets in a day, and each one takes multiple paragraphs to get to the point, the amount of various viewpoints the average person is able to interact with shrinks dramatically.
Granted, it seems like everyone is taking the forced brevity as an excuse to just write +1 to pile onto their side, since that's easier.
I feel like there has to be a medium between "Tweets that shoot context in the head" and "Autobiography attached to a macaroni and cheese recipe". The need for sites to keep you there encourages complete nonsense that doesn't contribute to the thing I'm there for, and so turns me away from long form anything. I got shit to do and a thousand articles competing for attention, most of which were written by bots and contain nothing. The whole scheme is just broken.
I feel like I had a thesis when I started this comment and I forgot where I was going...