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Re:Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count towar... by trizic on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:06PM (#12533869)
Surely it has some hard cap, otherwise I can see this being abused (base64 dumps)
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Re:Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count towar... by andrewstuart2 on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:52PM (#12534182)
Not sure what the appeal of inline base64 would be, though, over linking to a hosted file. Twitter is about sharing text, and arbitrarily long URLs mean mom and pop can achieve longer tweets by just adding http:// and using dashes.
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Re:Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count towar... by Navarr on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:54PM (#12534195)
not really, considering it'll get truncated
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Re:Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, quotes no longer count towar... by twic on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:47PM (#12535402)
Apparently they still count data: URLs towards the limit.
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