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How much information can you cram into 140 chars
2 points by pepijndevos on Aug 27, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
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?



Depends. Can I gzip it?


Sure, if you think you can get binary data across the Twitter api. Otherwise you'd have to base64 encode it :D


You can post binary via Twitter, yes.


Only if you include the decompression algorithm in the text to make it self decompressing.




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