Twitter's new 280 character limit probably involved dozens of engineers, SREs, PMs and managers
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Many hours of meetings, 20 page design docs, executive reviews, nitpicking on code reviews
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Replying to @slava_pestov
I sure hope they parametrized everything so that their architecture is fully generic w.r.t. tweet length now.
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There's going to be at least one buffer overflow exploit based on this.
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struct { char text[141]; ... } tweet_t;
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unit32_t they allow Unicode so 4byte code points. so ~564 chars max buffer len in old code.
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Yep. Actually 561 with NUL termination - the content can be arbitrary Unicode up to 4 bytes in UTF-8, but NUL is just 1 byte.
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