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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 (3.5

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.

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.