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Archived Comments, replied by aparachitt

aparachitt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:05:10 +0000

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Archived Comments, replied by riddle

riddle — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:27:49 +0000

"I'm pretty sure it is server side set to not accept anything over 140 length."

First check, then make assumptions please. :) Yes, you can exceed 140 characters. Example: http://twitter.com/mrpenguino/statuses/553786282

BTW, all characters from additional Unicode pallette count as 2, so they have to allow 140+ (think about japanese folks). http://twitter.com/riddle/statuses/543752322

In some cases twitter tells that my update was above 140 chars and it even displays "..." but it isn't needed as real char count is below 140 (I use proper typography a lot („”…– —).

Please, do check this on your own before criticizing my script. :)

Archived Comments, replied by riddle

riddle — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:54:02 +0000

No, it still works for me and so it should for you.

Archived Comments, replied by Xenophod

Xenophod — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:38:37 +0000

twitter has changed their code, making this hack obsolete. After you install this hack, you are still blocked from exceeding 140 chars.

See the screen shot below.
http://www.xenophod.com/twitter-hack.jpg

Archived Comments, replied by mouseboyx

mouseboyx — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:29:16 +0000

I'm pretty sure it is server side set to not accept anything over 140 length. This is just the client side that you are editing, but i may be wrong it just seems this way.

Archived Comments, replied by riddle

riddle — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:30:22 +0000

Actually you can exceed 140 chars, but it's not recommended.

Anyway - I removed the limit because I could move in textarea with cursor to locate and delete extra chars. It sucked. :]

Archived Comments, replied by nettrotter

nettrotter — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:10:39 +0000

i tried only to find that it failed to work that way. the website returns with the warning ,there is a big update,you can't exceed 140 chars. so you need to shoot troubles again.l

Archived Comments, replied by riddle

riddle — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:55:36 +0000

How it looks like: http://riddle.pl/blog/images/twitter-texthack.png

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:06:02 +0000

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