Biz pointed out that phonetic languages have a harder time, apparently 280 partially targets that need.
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Unless you're using Chinese or Japanese...
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Well, yes. Not a universal need to expand, but dynamic limits based on language seems a bit silly too.
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Plus, now germans can share two words per tweet...
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I'd say right at 225 bytes. That's the largest perfect square that still fits within an 8-bit unsigned integer.
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Some users need 0 characters.
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With 280 chars you can finally ask your students to submit homework via tweets now :)
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I forget what Facebook's is (10,000?) but the correct length is the end of a thought. Most of us can do it in one text. Others take two.
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I'd say 100.
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My hypothesis is 1.5x
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160 is prob enough. I've never needed double. Just a couple extra characters
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I heard
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im surprised they jumped 100%. I think something around 170-200 max would be more sensible
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