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Key point is that it has to fit in 1 SMS message, that's where the whole 140 character thing comes from.
by qeorge 17y ago
Key point is that it has to fit in 1 SMS message, that's where the whole 140 character thing comes from.
- fredBuddemeyer 17y agoyes but is it worth the illegibility and extra step of shortening? how many of those sms recipients make use of the link by retying it in a browser? if there is much of a use case why not have special handling for it?
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- briansmith 17y agoIt only has to fit in a single SMS message if the tweet is being consumed over SMS. There's no reason to do link shortening in other user interfaces.
- joshu 17y agoTweets already diverge from what will fit in an SMS. For example, 140 chars of unicode won't fit.
- jmhodges 17y agoWe go by bytes, not chars.
- chaosmachine 17y agoThat's incorrect, Twitter goes by characters. I actually wrote an app to exploit this loophole: http://tweetcompressor.com/ http://tweetcompressor.com/
- spazmaster 17y agoAlso SMS fits 160 chars, not 140.
- Kilimanjaro 17y agoI would like to know the percentage of tweets sent as SMS.