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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by rsync on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:58PM (#10334430) 

  # wc -m

  Last I checked; thought leaders don't convey their thoughts in 140 characters or less.
  Nothing of really value is that short. Sorry.

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by jonwachob91 on Monday October 05, 2015 @04:07PM (#10334509)
I didn't really provide any value. Just being a clown ;p
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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by raii on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:32PM (#10335127)
-m?
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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by marchelzo on Monday October 05, 2015 @09:09PM (#10336175)
It counts characters rather than bytes. Maybe it's a GNU thing?

EDIT: It appears to be part of POSIX wc.

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