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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by digi_owl on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @10:31AM (#12297685)
Twitter started out as an SMS repeater.

SMS has for ages, thanks to Nokia, had the capability of merging multiple messages into a single large one.

Twitter could just make use of this and save themselves a whole lot of grief.

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by vanzard on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:17AM (#12297998)
Let's be serious. No one reads twitter over sms anymore. This isn't at all the reason twitter continues to limit to 140 characters.

(Before some smartass replies "I do read over sms", well even without sms merging, twitter could still split a tweet into multiple sms. 99.9999% of their userbase wouldn't care.)

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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by dmix on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:40PM (#12298632)
That's not relevant to the OPs point. The point is that even SMS clients were capable of merging multiple messages together, yet Twitter has still failed to do so. So whether or not they were SMS doesn't matter.
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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by mattmanser on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:21PM (#12298959)
No one read twitter over sms in the first place. It was a quirk of a pivot.
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