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#2Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...!
My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon.
Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they did recently, so who knows.
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#3For comparison:
A sha512 hash in hex: 309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f
Same in this Base2048: ЗཟǷњϳݫЬߦՏԈ௰ڿƫ௪தͶޡഺཀވࡌੳٿ༲৩ত༥၄ঙџڸࠑحϷгଘƩƴߢய߅ϚƐγ๓ۑఞ
The encoding also seems to be HN-safe, using no emojis or other things HN filters. The font used here is lacking some of the characters, but that shouldn't matter if you just copy-paste.
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#4Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
If they abolish the character limit, do they also rebrand the platform from twitter to blogger? /s
I think there are some interesting observations in how both twitter and tiktok set out with short maximum lengths, establishing a culture of short, easy to digest messages, before relaxing the limit a bit. I'm not sure how much you can relax the limit before you turn the platform into something else entirely. But on the other hand there is a pattern of users circumventing the limit anyways. It will be interesting to watch how it develops over the years.
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#5Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
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#6Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter started as “an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group”, and SMS messages are 140 bytes (that may store 160 characters when using a 7-bit encoding such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38, but they didn’t go there)
I guess bumping the limit up while keeping the ability to interact with all kinds of SMS systems and ancient phones was a challenge, or just required waiting a few years for some of the weirder systems to die out.
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#7Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
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#8Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
The prophecy will be fulfilled.
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#9Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
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#10Heh, well that's one way to work around the inane Twitter character limit...! My personal Musk dream is that he'll abolish that. If I never have to see tweets of pictures of text or tweets ending in `/n` again, it will be too soon. Though, I sort of remember that Twitter was architected initially in a way that relied on the short tweets and it was a surprisingly complex change to even bump it up the little that they…
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
280. Then the next one will be 187 (186.6666...).
n[0] = 140
n[k] = 2/k * n[k-1]