Twitter, like cablese, favours observation rather than analysis.

Twitter像电报一样，有利于观察家而不是分析家。

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Foreign correspondents in the first half of the 20th century learned to write in cablese, a series of abbreviations demanded by news organisations that had to pay by the word.

在20世纪的前半段，报社的驻国外记者开始使用电报来发报道，由于电报是按字收费，因此一系列的缩写由这些新闻组织发明出来。

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