Washington ? Sometimes, 140 characters isn’t nearly enough.

That’s the premise behind a droll Web site recently launched by a couple of Washington-based friends. While the microblogging site Twitter caps entries at 140 keystrokes, the parody site Woofer requires entries a minimum of 1,400 keystrokes. It’s a macroblogging site, you see.

Peter Martin, one of the site’s creators, describes the site as an “homage” to the famous social-networking service. And with Woofer sporting a familiar blue interface and Twitter-esque page layout, it’s hard to miss the similarity. It’s probably not a bad idea, from a legal perspective, that the Woofer page, parked online at www.woofertime.com, makes it clear that it is “not affiliated in any way whatsoever with Twitter.”

Martin, 32, was killing time before a movie one afternoon and joking with a friend that Twitter’s foil, logically speaking, would be called “Woofer” and that such a service would require entries that were 10 times as long as those posted on Twitter.

Martin and friend Portman Wills put the site together in about three hours; the gag wasn’t worth more time than that, they figured. Since Woofer went online Aug. 14, about 11,000 people have posted wordy entries to the site, though many more have dropped by just to take a look. A big chunk of the site’s traffic comes from Twitter users — sometimes getting a quick chuckle out of the concept before moving on, sometimes using Woofer as a place to share their longer musings.

So far, a lot of copying and pasting is going on. Some have “woofed” books of the Bible or short stories. More than a few of the serious entries read like the filibustering efforts of a grade-schooler who needs to fill out the word count on a book report.

Someone posted a plot summary of the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film “Sister Act.” Another joker posted a list of celebrities with “high-top fade” haircuts. If Twitter is substantially more useful than this on a day-to-day basis, I haven’t noticed.

And such is modern life that the site quickly attracts the same sort of riffraff as any other: A spammer discovered the site and used Woofer to promote an online ticket-brokering service.

So what have we learned?

For one thing, “people are really out of practice when it comes to expressing themselves at great length,” Martin said.