I wonder if message length have impact on communication efficiency

Question

I look for studies that discuss about messages lengths and communication efficiency and the relation if any with nowdays messaging usages compared with previous generation habits.Any thoughts, sourcesor suggestions are welcome.

Lorenz-Kraft · Accepted Answer

I think there are no direct studies about message length and efficiency. You might want to look closer at NLP because most of what you might be looking for is defined within NLP.For Example: "Efficiency" depends on the sender (who writes) and recipient (who reads). But this is not the end. 1: HOW is something written (Hard to grasp?=> Flesh Analysis) 2: HOW is something written (10 px Font on mobil? => Typography) 3: HOW is something written (light white 20px Font on light grey background?? => Typography and Color Contrast) ... and so on for almost all topics. There are mostly more than one question to be answered ... for both views (sender and receiver).

aaron695 · Answer

I think the shortness of Twitter is why it's a vile toxic dump.
But I'd look into the Twitter message length change over -
ie. https://medium.com/@kurtgessler/twitter-length-study-do-long...
> previous generation habits
This is harder to understand. I'd say the telephone was what was important directly pre-internet. Letter's were quaint. $ per message mattered. Latency was huge. It's pretty complex.