Shrinking messages and the death of hyperlinks

BNO News is awesome. I was not much surprised by that news service over Twitter than by the fact that titles are linked to .... nothing.

Yes, no link! Hyperlink is dead! A title is a story by itself and life discourses are 140 signs long. Articles are dead. Who needs articles after all? A shower of unrelated short burst of news will suffice. News for short attention syndrome gets shorter.

OK then, why not use it for sight translation training on steroid? And will the standard lingo of 30 years from now on sound like a bursting stream of 140 signs long sentences on average? Will the longuish sentences be a sign of incompetence?