Perhaps, but the limitation imposed by this medium (140 char) as you noted gives little. Consider any overheard single sentence and how much insight you usually gain from it.
I like twitter, but the reliance on this platform as a source is a little too much sometimes.
But it's much better than taking a sentence out of context from a regular conversation or article because it was authored with the intent of being distributed sans context.
To me this is a great strength of twitter's model, not a weakness.
I like twitter, but the reliance on this platform as a source is a little too much sometimes.