1. Write a 280 char tweet w/spaces
2. ctrl+a, ctrl+x
3. ctrl+v
4. Tweet becomes 283 to 284 chars
This is consistently reproducible for me in FF.
In the linked thread, a guy who worked on this feature explains why it's good that undo, cut, copy, etc. don't work correctly
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/891487984465268737 …
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If you've ever wondered why I sometimes have tweets with extra spaces in them, I habitually copy as I type as a "backup". When the web app blows up, I paste to "restore" but twitter breaks this. I remove the extra spaces I can spot, but it's hard to spot if it's at a line break
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The previous tweet was going to end with an emoji, but inserting the emoji took me from 1 char remaining to -3. Did twitter switch from characters to bytes and switch to the gauge so that it would be less obvious that they switched?

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Replying to @danluu
Are the extra 3-4 characters in the pasted text from extra space characters (inserted or appended by Twitter) or Emoji "characters" converted to bytes on the roundtrip?
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Extra spaces. Some spaces turn into two spaces (I haven't tried with no spaces to see if spaces get inserted if there were zero spaces).
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