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 [...]
