Okay, so here's what's going on with the new Twitter client-side length check.
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I de-obfuscated a bunch of client code (tedious) and came to the same conclusion as people have reached via experimentation...
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The new maximum Tweet length is 280 (normalized) Unicode characters, EXCEPT THAT characters 0x1100 upwards all count double.
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"Unicode characters 0x100 upwards" includes every character used for Base65536, including the padding characters.
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*0x1100 upwards
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