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Texting SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen 20 years on

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  • darklajid 14y ago
    Given that the person in question isn't dead (at least according to my information, I searched for details just because of your irritating comment), I believe that your comment includes a good mixture of bad taste and irrelevant "who cares about SMS" attitude. Both are crap.
• pdog 14y ago
  Given the amount of research they put into determining the 160 character limit[1], it's disappointing that Twitter had to limit themselves to 140 characters (to allow for usernames). [1] - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-...
  • DHowett 14y ago
    I believe Twitter had to restrict status updates to 140 characters not due to usernames but instead due to the fact that SMS messages are 160 septets (1120 bits, or 140 8-bit characters) not 160 8-bit characters.
    • seiji 14y ago
      That's an extremely fancy way of saying SMS was created with a focus on 7-bit characters.
    • laacz 14y ago
      Also, short messages cannot contain symbols outsids ASCII (actually - 7bit ASCII), while twitter is 100% unicode.