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Yup, you can put 280 of it into a single tweet.
by atomwaffel 6y ago
Yup, you can put 280 of it into a single tweet.
- robinhouston 6y agoI don’t think that’s right. I looked into the way Twitter counts characters when I was trying to work out the largest prime number that could be written out in full, in base ten, in a single tweet[1]; the rules are more complicated than you might expect, and have changed several times. The current rule seems to be that all Unicode characters count as two, except for the ranges 0–4351, 8192–8205, 8208–8223 and 8242–8247 which count as one. [1] In case you’re wondering, I think it’s, arguably: https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1197294154738544641 https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1197294154738544641
- atomwaffel 6y agoGood point! Still, I could swear I saw someone (@FakeUnicode?) do exactly this once, but of course I can’t find that tweet any more, partly because it turns out that search engines don’t handle ﷽ well at all, and I don’t feel like testing it on my own followers somehow. Edit: it looks like it might count it as two characters, so that’s only 140 per tweet.
- cmehdy 6y agoI can confirm that I tried it and found the max to be 140 times ﷽
- robinhouston 6y agoThat’s definitely possible! @FakeUnicode mentioned in the discussion that, when 280-character tweets were first introduced in September 2017, it was possible to tweet 280 single-codepoint emoji using TweetDeck. https://twitter.com/fakeunicode/status/1197282221503041537 https://twitter.com/fakeunicode/status/1197282221503041537 There are several amusing examples in the thread linked from this tweet.