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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by spazmaster on Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:13AM (#1267137)
Also SMS fits 160 chars, not 140.
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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by barredo on Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:43AM (#1267171)
20 chars were reserved for twitter username
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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by blasdel on Thursday April 15, 2010 @03:28AM (#1267219)
160 7-bit characters.

Twitter usernames are 15, the ": " takes another two, and three are reserved for future sigil retardation.

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Re:Twitter Confirms It Will Launch Its Own Link Shortener by papachito on Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:49AM (#1267180)
140 doesn't include the user name, the app name and probably some more info.
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