Article: Political Coverage That's All a-Twitter; When Each Character Counts, the News Update Is Short and Tweet

John Dickerson, who covers the presidential campaign almost single-handedly for Slate, is a man of few words.

He's quite chatty in person, and his online dispatches are reasonably meaty. But here at the Democratic convention, Dickerson is also sharing his views on Twitter.com, which requires extreme brevity.

"Obama picked Biden which is really going to decrease Hillary's chances at being his Vice President," he deadpanned right after the announcement.

It is the digital equivalent of a sound bite, a throat-clearing, a terse observation or two for a cloistered community online. How much can you say, after all, within the official limit of 140 characters (which this paragraph has already ...

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