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Breaking the 140 barrier

June 24th, 2009  |  by jz  |  published in Future of the Internet, twitter  |  8 Comments

Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet.  The founders explain that they expected interconnection with mobile phone text messaging — SMS — from the start, and that it could be expensive to have longer tweets broken into mutiple messages when people pay per SMS.  As Dom Sagolla explains:
Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS [...]

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