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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by mettamage on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:49PM (#11763131)
Silly question perhaps (I'm a Twitterer): but can't you now do hacky things like @insert_complete_message_you_want_to_tell?
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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by sumitgt on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:55PM (#11763190)
Maybe not that since that would not be registered username.

http://but.you.might.be.able.to.do.something.like.this

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Re:Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing... by pilif on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:08PM (#11763328)
no, because URLs are still counted (probably because of this workaround).
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