The purpose of the little reverse loading wheel is to give you the feeling that you need to say more. "Use all the letters. You're not done yet. Please make it so this isn't worthless."
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It also makes it difficult for purists to intentionally stay within the old 140-character limit
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They'll just A-B test the hell out of different "charges" for different character classes
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probably also to avoid confusion over the characters that count double, no? it's either going to have to do 140, 139.5, 139, etc or 280, 278, 276 etc for at least some tweets -- even if we had perfect language detection, there would be mixed-language tweets.
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