I think the shortened version is much more effective. And the point is not only for someone at Disney to read it, but for hundreds or more other fans to read it and retweet, etc. There are tons of fans who comment on any OT related tweet I’ve seen, demanding the OOT or complaining about it not being available (and presumably only a few of them are from here). Hell, Harmy has tons of followers on his facebook that have nothing to do with this site. There’s an audience out there that might respond, and an essay is probably not the way to do that. Perhaps you could include a link to a fuller statement, but I still think it was probably too wordy as it was.

If this is a twitter thing, I think it’s just as important to try to find the right people to retweet it. Prominent people in fandom who don’t suck (or have Lucas apologist followers)? Celebrities? Geeky news sites? Edit: this part of the conversation probably shouldn’t be public.