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• gojomo 17y ago
  Not definitively. There are exceptions. For example, at... http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/less-versus-fewer.aspx http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/less-versus-fewer.aspx ...GrammarGirl notes that "it is customary to use the word less to describe time, money, and distance". A limited character budget is a little like linear distance (display length of a message; "140 characters long") and a little like money (spending your allocated character count). And, the masses have spoken: ["140 characters or less"] -> about 14,300,000 results ["140 characters or fewer"] -> about 448,000 results