hmm...... here's a question: how many bits of information can you send in one tweet, using only text characters?
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how high-resolution of an image can you encode using 140 CJK Unified Ideographs?????
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the question is a little bit tricky i think because not all unicode codepoints are valid and able to be submitted in a tweet
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Replying to @valeriehalla
forbidden: most C0 and BIDI control codes, surrogates. Complex: Normalization also makes many untweetable (like KELVIN SIGN becomes K).
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Replying to @FakeUnicode @valeriehalla
@qntm took a reasonable crack at this with base65536 and you can apparently cram at least 16 bits into a character1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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so with 140 characters it's at least 280 bytes, and with 280 characters it's at least 560
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Base65536 uses "heavy" characters which Twitter counts double. Only 140 fit even in a long Tweet, so still only 280 bytes
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However, I'm planning an encoding which uses only "light" characters and encodes 11 bits per character = 385 bytes per long Tweet
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