See also: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/the-1st-international-longest-tweet-contest https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/the-1st-international-longe... Twitter

See also: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/the-1st-international-longest-tweet-contest https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/the-1st-international-longe... Twitter characters can actually store up to nearly 31 bits each, if you’re using the JSON API. (Or at least, this was true in 2010. I don’t know whether this is still true.) http://blog.kevinalbs.com/base122 http://blog.kevinalbs.com/base122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049329 Base-122 encoding is 87.5% efficient in UTF-8, better than anything listed in the base65536 repository’s comparison table.