latimesblogs.latimes.com — Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters
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pr1zmMay 5, 2009
The Blackberry Storm suck anyway.
necuzMay 10, 2009
Not quite forever, but at least 10 years… (in Finland)
myhakimMay 14, 2009
Text message service usually only 160 characters cause this name short message service,hehe.. if 1600 characters this name long short message, but now more service for send free text message or application for cellphone for long SMS.<a class="user" href="http://goocell.com">http://goocell.com</a>
angrykeyboarderMay 15, 2009
I will never "get" text messaging. The majority of people who do it are doing it from a regular cell phone (e.g. without a QWERTY keyboard) and even with features like T9. it's still a chore It's OK for a quick note, but more often than not, it makes more sense to me to actually call the person.And I really don't get 15-year-olds who carry out full-fleged conversations via text. That just doesn't make sense to me.To each his/her own...
memstatMay 16, 2009
i agree, f**k twitter!
Closed AccountMay 17, 2009
ok, the 160 letters makes up a universal standard file size that is charged if u send one letter or 160 letters, the total of 160 charectars is the price f txt, and it keeps all files same size, its file size. & if you go one letter over, it auto makes another file, charging you twice, so, if your going to send a txt, u may as well use up what your paying for, and it saves cat an mouse replies, its not philosophical or deep or anything else, its a standard file size. ur charged for an empty box, what u can put in it is 160 letters, if u only put in one, then its still a box.. never speak of this again.. :)
tweetasaurusMay 21, 2009
Why limit yourself to 140? Try out <a class="user" href="http://tweetasaur.us">http://tweetasaur.us</a> And I'd be surprised if there aren't other twitter clients that do the same thing.
galant2424Apr 10, 2010
To blackberry users. You need to upgrade your software to 5.0. You can type a message as long as u want. It will automaticlly split the messages for u up to 6 messages all at once. Go into your settings, then advanced option, then wireless update. It won't do it on its own. I have Curve 8900 and had the 8310 curve also. Hope this helps some of u.