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Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by Overtonwindow »

robtaylor wrote: post #50

@Jack said "Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!" https://twitter.com/jack/status/912784057863245824 How many people did it take to come up with double a char limit, and how is that 'thoughtful' or 'solving' anything? Total guff. The start of the end of twitter hashtag hottake.

Someone needs to make an Apple-style video of a Twitter employee talking about this latest breakthrough in human communication. Oh, and they have to use the word "courage"

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

flycaliguy wrote: post #136
OscarCunningham wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of weird that it doesn't. You could so easily change the "sixty-seven" to "twenty-five".

Don't ever let a poet see this comment.

> Don't ever let a poet see this comment

Why?

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by betterunix2 »

xenadu02 wrote: post #31

Japanese/Chinese only “fit” in 140 because of the way they count “characters”. 280 for alphabetic languages seems roughly equivalent.

In the interest of being fair, let's compare bytes:

日日是好日 (15 bytes)

Every day is a good day (23 bytes)

It's not just how one counts "characters;" some languages are written more compactly than others. I would not be surprised if Hebrew is also a bit more compact than English, as it is typically written without vowels.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #107
xenadu02 wrote: post #31

Japanese/Chinese only “fit” in 140 because of the way they count “characters”. 280 for alphabetic languages seems roughly equivalent.

A Chinese character is much more dense than two roman letters. When I was texting in china during the SMS phase, I got around 16 or maybe 20 characters before it was broken into extra messages.

…huh? It should be able to fit 70 characters (70 UCS-2 characters is 140 bytes, which is the SMS message limit).

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

I hope this isn't actually language-based, else it'll be awkward for tweets that mix languages, or multilingual users who have their UI in one language and tweet in another.

It would make more sense to simply count CJK characters twice, like the “double-width character” days of old.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

madeofpalk wrote: post #78

Twitter seems to have the worst luck/timing when it comes to 'new features'. Last time it was Users: Please help get rid of these nazis Twitter: ROUND PROFILE PICS! this time its Users: Please help prevent nuclear war Twitter: HOW ABOUT LONGER TWEETS!

Why code block, whyyyyyy PITA on mobile :(

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by iXce »

> Most Japanese Tweets are 15 characters while most English Tweets are 34

Doesn't the graph shows that most English tweets are 140 characters instead? The first peak on the English curve is indeed on 34 characters, but it's lower than the 140 peak.

Re: Giving you more characters

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Post by dEnigma »

dsnuh wrote: post #152
bostonpete wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was disappointed to find this poem didn't have exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words.

At first I didnt understand why either, but looking at poem more and thinking about if I were writing it; I think he did it so he could use the "Thirty two and a third" line. It's much more dramatic and stimulating ("...I love you, I...") than just saying "twenty-five times". Edit: Oops, I think I screwed up my math. It would be 22 times. Edit: misquoted! worked in a record store too long. :)

EDIT: Nevermind, I shouldn't comment late at night. Keeping the comment intact in case someone is currently responding, so context is preserved.

EDIT2: It would work with the actual number of words in the poem (125) though, he would have to say "Eighteen and a third times". 59+11+18*3+1 = 125

OLD COMMENT: What do you mean? "Thirty-two and a third times" means exactly that, and not 22. He used 59 words that day, plus the eleven for the first part of the call, plus 32 times 3 ("I love you"), plus a third of "I love you", which is just one word. Makes 167.

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