RE: 255 characters is a pretty decent length for a title. Why don't more people just use the title for short content rather than using a title + body? Makes sense to me. Try it. It's pretty lame that you have to enter content in the body, use a blank space.

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I support this and raise you that it be reflected in the interface. If post titles could understand markdown it could be a different type of post. Links, tags, and @‘s could also be supported.