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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by joshu on Wednesday April 14, 2010 @11:29PM (#1266879)
Tweets already diverge from what will fit in an SMS. For example, 140 chars of unicode won't fit.
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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by jmhodges on Thursday April 15, 2010 @04:13AM (#1267274)
We go by bytes, not chars.
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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by chaosmachine on Thursday April 15, 2010 @06:17AM (#1267455)
That's incorrect, Twitter goes by characters. I actually wrote an app to exploit this loophole:

http://tweetcompressor.com/

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