The new maximum Tweet length is 280 (normalized) Unicode characters, EXCEPT THAT characters 0x1100 upwards all count double.
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If we can find 512 "good" characters (easy?), "Base512" would express 9 bits per character, or 315 bytes per 280-character Tweet.
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If we can find 1024 "good" characters (difficulty unclear), "Base1024" would express 10 bits per character = 350 bytes per Tweet
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Base2048 -> 11 bits/character -> 385 bytes/Tweet (highly unlikely) Base4096 -> 12 bits/character -> 420 bytes/Tweet (definitely impossible)
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Binary encodings using non-power-of-two Unicode character counts are possible but generally more inconvenient to implement.
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With a power of two, you just dice the bits up and then put them back together in different groupings.
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There are 0x1100 = 4352 good characters, and 1109760 bad ones.
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A currently-unanswered question is how many of the good characters are "safe".
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"Safeness" was a concept I defined while initially developing Base65536: https://github.com/qntm/base65536gen#what-makes-a-character-safe …
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I suppose I shall have to dig that old code out and do some further number crunching...
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I think I'm going to call these characters "light" and "heavy" rather than "good" and "bad".
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