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How much information can you cram into 140 chars
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pepijndevos
on Aug 27, 2010
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Are some languages more suitable for tweeting? Like Chinese(char per word?) or Fins(long words?).
Hw mch cn u str whl kpng th txt rdbl?
How much data can you store when giving up readability?
_5csa
on Aug 27, 2010
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Depends. Can I gzip it?
pepijndevos
on Aug 27, 2010
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Sure, if you think you can get binary data across the Twitter api. Otherwise you'd have to base64 encode it :D
_5csa
on Aug 27, 2010
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You can post binary via Twitter, yes.
RiderOfGiraffes
on Aug 27, 2010
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Only if you include the decompression algorithm in the text to make it self decompressing.
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