miércoles, agosto 17, 2011

Why does Twitter have a 140 character limit?

Originally, Twitter had no character limit. Messages that exceeded 160 characters (the typical SMS text limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered sequentially.
The message bill got high for Twitter and there were bugs with delivery.
Twitter solved the mounting problems by putting a 140 character cap on messages. This left 20 characters for a Twitter handle and the colon before the text.

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