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I found my first 280 (tweet): (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2017 OP
How does one do a 280? Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1
The 280 thingy just splashed in the news yesterday Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #2
I will wait till it is available, but there should be accounts they can exclude from Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #3
Why not? It's a publicly traded company. Initech Sep 2017 #5
Huh! Had to look this up. English is "especially impacted by cramming." Hortensis Sep 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
3. I will wait till it is available, but there should be accounts they can exclude from
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 12:24 PM
Sep 2017

this new feature, like dumbshit in chief.

I wish we could all buy TWITTER and kick him off.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
5. Why not? It's a publicly traded company.
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 12:36 PM
Sep 2017

But I don't think you can raise enough money to buy a company like that through Go Fund Me.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Huh! Had to look this up. English is "especially impacted by cramming."
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 12:31 PM
Sep 2017

I certainly feel "impacted" on my rare tweets but had no idea some languages weren't -- "cramming, which includes every language except for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. ... The average length of a tweet in Japanese is 15 characters, and only 0.4 percent of tweets hit the 140-character limit,..."

We'll find out soon enough the impact of 280 on Tweety. Thesis topic anyone?

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