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That’s 2,598 tweets to transmit a single megabyte. So, if I wanted to tweet the movie Spaceballs, encoded at 4K UHD (20MB/s), I estimate that I will need to ma

That’s 2,598 tweets to transmit a single megabyte. So, if I wanted to tweet the movie Spaceballs, encoded at 4K UHD (20MB/s), I estimate that I will need to make 20,945,455 tweets. Twitter limits the posts made by nobodys (like me) to 2,400 tweets per day… so, it is going to take me just under 24 years to complete my task. I’d better get started.

_8j50 4y ago
Or just transmit a url to the media on some site,ipfs,.onion,etc... I don't know their use case but I was thinking more for malware command-and-control and red teaming.
rpastuszak 4y ago
You can fit much more in a single tweet! You can do that with base64 + gzip + (and that’s the important one) _wrapping the content in a url_. Here’s pong (3.5kb) stored in a single tweet: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=21&t=cdc4cbXb_8uROEJTLiWDJw https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=2... Source: I was bored, curious if I could turn twitter into a CDN
- Retr0id 4y ago
  You can fit much more into a tweet if you consider image data, too.
  - tonnydourado 4y ago
    Problem is that there's no guarantee that twitter won't apply lossy transformations to your data (in fact, it's guaranteed that it does). So either you would have to encode the data with lots of redundancy and/or error correction, or you have to encode in like, QR code or something similar, and rely on image recognition to extract it. Inside the range of characters support by twitter, your data is "guaranteed" to not change
    - mananaysiempre 4y ago
      In 2018 people discovered that Twitter would recompress images but leave the embedded ICC profile, if present, intact, and used that to make a Twitter-surviving JPEG+ZIP polyglot[1], although that got patched out once someone used it as a C&C channel[2]. Apparently that still worked (and was utilized for the same purpose) on Steam user profiles in 2021[3]. [1] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464 [2] https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/l/cybercriminals-use-malicious-memes-that-communicate-with-malware.html https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/l/cybercriminal... [3] https://twitter.com/miltinh0c/status/1392944896760238080 https://twitter.com/miltinh0c/status/1392944896760238080
      - Retr0id 4y ago
        This technique is still fully functional: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png
  - dhosek 4y ago
    Or the 1000 characters of the Alt tag. Since you can have multiple images per tweet, your limit just jumped without having to worry about images getting edited.
- beepbooptheory 4y ago
  If/when we get an edit button, I feel like twitter could be a CDN and a CMS. Could make a "severless" blog that is just hijacking Twitter's server. Comments and media hosting built in!
  - inportb 4y ago
    There's no need to edit or delete. Treat Twitter as a changes feed. Encode your editions and deletions as new tweets.
    - teaearlgraycold 4y ago
      Git on Twitter then
      - btown 4y ago
        A Twit-chain, if you will
        teaearlgraycold 4y ago
        Delete this comment now before you have a dozen offers from various VCs.
Dylan16807 4y ago
Well you don't have to use such a decadent encoding! If you aim to upload 10 seconds a day you could be done in a year and a half. 900KB can handle 10 seconds just fine, especially with a cutting-edge codec.
_Algernon_ 4y ago
Ib4 some masochist makes a streaming platform that uses twitter as a backend.
zamadatix 4y ago
One of the funniest encoding things I've ever seen is Shrek encoded to just under 8 MB (128x72, 8 FPS, with audio! Actually understandable to watch, if only just barely). With this that would look to be 21,655 tweets or, using the API to post base65536 tweets, 14,888 tweets. At 2,400 tweets per day that's just over 9 days for base2048 or just under a week for base65536. Doable!

_8j50 4y ago

Or just transmit a url to the media on some site,ipfs,.onion,etc... I don't know their use case but I was thinking more for malware command-and-control and red teaming.

rpastuszak 4y ago

You can fit much more in a single tweet! You can do that with base64 + gzip + (and that’s the important one) _wrapping the content in a url_. Here’s pong (3.5kb) stored in a single tweet: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=21&t=cdc4cbXb_8uROEJTLiWDJw https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=2... Source: I was bored, curious if I could turn twitter into a CDN

Retr0id 4y ago
You can fit much more into a tweet if you consider image data, too.
- tonnydourado 4y ago
  Problem is that there's no guarantee that twitter won't apply lossy transformations to your data (in fact, it's guaranteed that it does). So either you would have to encode the data with lots of redundancy and/or error correction, or you have to encode in like, QR code or something similar, and rely on image recognition to extract it. Inside the range of characters support by twitter, your data is "guaranteed" to not change
  - mananaysiempre 4y ago
    In 2018 people discovered that Twitter would recompress images but leave the embedded ICC profile, if present, intact, and used that to make a Twitter-surviving JPEG+ZIP polyglot[1], although that got patched out once someone used it as a C&C channel[2]. Apparently that still worked (and was utilized for the same purpose) on Steam user profiles in 2021[3]. [1] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1057042085029822464 [2] https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/l/cybercriminals-use-malicious-memes-that-communicate-with-malware.html https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/l/cybercriminal... [3] https://twitter.com/miltinh0c/status/1392944896760238080 https://twitter.com/miltinh0c/status/1392944896760238080
    - Retr0id 4y ago
      This technique is still fully functional: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png
- dhosek 4y ago
  Or the 1000 characters of the Alt tag. Since you can have multiple images per tweet, your limit just jumped without having to worry about images getting edited.
beepbooptheory 4y ago
If/when we get an edit button, I feel like twitter could be a CDN and a CMS. Could make a "severless" blog that is just hijacking Twitter's server. Comments and media hosting built in!
- inportb 4y ago
  There's no need to edit or delete. Treat Twitter as a changes feed. Encode your editions and deletions as new tweets.
  - teaearlgraycold 4y ago
    Git on Twitter then
    - btown 4y ago
      A Twit-chain, if you will
      - teaearlgraycold 4y ago
        Delete this comment now before you have a dozen offers from various VCs.

Dylan16807 4y ago

Well you don't have to use such a decadent encoding! If you aim to upload 10 seconds a day you could be done in a year and a half. 900KB can handle 10 seconds just fine, especially with a cutting-edge codec.

_Algernon_ 4y ago

Ib4 some masochist makes a streaming platform that uses twitter as a backend.

zamadatix 4y ago

One of the funniest encoding things I've ever seen is Shrek encoded to just under 8 MB (128x72, 8 FPS, with audio! Actually understandable to watch, if only just barely). With this that would look to be 21,655 tweets or, using the API to post base65536 tweets, 14,888 tweets. At 2,400 tweets per day that's just over 9 days for base2048 or just under a week for base65536. Doable!