• Orioniae@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    The 144 characters limit. IIRC Twitter had the same limit because at the beginning you could post on your profile using SMS.

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      10 hours ago

      SMS is 160 characters. In the early days Twitter really only functioned over SMS. The Twitter 140 character limit was to fit the message inside an SMS with room for other info like usernames.

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        7 hours ago

        Interesting. I always believed the SMS is 144 characters. Incredible we had a social where ideas where sent 4~8 lines at a time (depending on the font size)