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Apples and oranges. The post states that the used Twitter logo PNG is 4000 bytes, while it's only 723. Try to express that logo in text, English language and in all its details with 723 characters, so you are able to reproduce a pixel perfect representation. Not even possible with 4000 characters anyway. Don't bother. Text will be ambiguous, unless you describe every single detail. If the target is to communicate "Twitter logo" then sure, just write that. But if you compare 723 bytes of "data" with just a few specific information pieces contained within that data ... sure, text might be better.

> text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.

Nothing of this is actually true, period.

> I do not post to this blog with the intention of entertaining Hacker News Debate Club and I frequently disable comments or friend-lock posts in order to avoid this sort of nonsense. I'm not interested in further discussion.

Ah yes, the true seal of quality. (sarcasm)

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Plain text is simple, elegant and has open-standards - it traces its origins back to telegraph codes that we have been using for hundreds of years - and still forms the basis of most of the internet now. So I am inclined to agree with the statement "text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period".
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The Twitter logo in SVG format is only 687 bytes and can be as large as you like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Twitter_bird_...
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>Nothing of this is actually true, period.

Could you kindly verify that by repeating your post using something other than what amounts to a text file?

If not maybe that's an even truer seal of irony.

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> The post states that the used Twitter logo PNG is 4000 bytes, while it's only 723.

The article was written in 2014. Worth remembering when nitpicking the text of an article.

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Compare a book (a few megs) with a picture of the same size. What do you think can communicate more info? Do you have a single counter-example?
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well, svg is text. The jpg/png icon will pixelate when zoomed, but svg will retain its quality no matter how much you zoom in... :)
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That's a biased comparison. Obviously an image is better at communicating an image. By setting the goalposts at "pixel perfect recreation" you've already selected a winner.
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re:Try to express that logo in text

"Twitter"

carries the same weight

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