University of Michigan English professor and language historian Anne Curzan says that the decreasing use of commas in texts and tweets may be tied to efforts at making communications more stylistically fun and more similar to spoken conversation.

And that is the problem. Anybody who advocates written communications to be similar to spoken communications will be up against the wall when the revolution comes.

when the revolution comes. - die letzte deutsche "Rechtschreibreform" wurde auch mal als "revolutionär" bezeichnet ...
:-)

But removing the commas would completely destroy the beauty of passages like

Evn tho I wlk thru vly o shdw o dth, I wl fr no evl, 4 u r wth me, ur rd n yr stf, th cmfrt me.
U prepr tbl b4 me n prsnc o my nmes. U ant my hd w ol, my cp ovrfls.
Srly gdns n lv wl fl o me al th dys o my lf, n I wl dwl n hs o th Lrd 4evr.

But removing the commas would completely destroy the beauty of passages like ...

but, surely, it would make it "more similar to spoken conversation" ;)