140characters.com — @Jack was still just an engineer, and the service was only a few months old when the group acquired Twitter.com and re-branded. Back then, we had no character limit on our system. Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS carrier limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered (somewhat) sequentially.
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domsagollaJan 31, 2009
I've been writing that article in my head for three years! I'm glad you can digg it ;)
drewchapmanFeb 1, 2009
I can totally Digg it. =D
liz99Feb 1, 2009
It will be intresting to see if this bit is included in all of those Twitter books that are coming out.
naloraMar 7, 2009
Absolutely fascinating, huh?