Twitter, of course, allows users to post messages at a maximum length of 140 characters.

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It's been replaced with a more sophisticated shoulder-length style more fitting a busy post-retirement career as a wife, a mother of two, an Olympics booster and a motivational speaker.

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Barry Ritholtz, a market researcher and columnist for The Washington Post, recently tackled the complexity issue at length.

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