Tweeting More Than 140 Characters with Deck.ly: Brilliant or Blasphemy?

Earlier this month, Twitter client TweetDeck introduced Deck.ly, a new feature that enables users to send long messages to Twitter, bypassing the 140-character limit that is the signature of the micro-blogging service.

The response from users has been mixed, to say the least. Some users are glad to be able to tweet without restriction on length, but many are frowning upon the service's violation of that sacred 140 character limit.