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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:26PM (#31158771)
> It was originally dictated by the arbitrarily chosen data packet size for communicating with cell towers which in turn impacted how large SMSes could be.

The current limit was not.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by munk-a on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:30PM (#31158838)
The current limit was still arbitrarily chosen and image macros are still legion on twitter.

The limit was not chosen because it's particularly well aligned for interplanetary communication so I'm still confused as to why twitter is being touted as the best aligned social media platform.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:44PM (#31158997)
> The current limit was still arbitrarily chosen

Right, it was even more arbitrarily chosen based on stylistic preferences not any communication system constraint.

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