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Re:Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art by dmbass on Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:22AM (#6500719)
Obviously you are limited in how much data you can encode in with your available Tweet length...

All urls on Twitter are shortened with t.co to 22/23 characters (depending on https) so the url is not a limit.

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Re:Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art by TheZenPsycho on Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:50AM (#6500799)
Storing everything in the URL is a feature I just rolled out today. The HN submission is in honour of that. You can of course post it without the http://pix.pe/? to twitter, paste that chunk of letters back in, and it will work. Here is an example of how that looked:

https://twitter.com/ZenSaiyuki/status/373400181338693632

Which is neat, and purist and all, but people didn't know what the "gibberish" was, so making it a link is a compelling improvement, it would seem :)

I was really inspired by the twitter image compression challenge http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-enco...

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