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International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries

Posted by timothy on from the shannon-sighs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The 1st International Longest Tweet Contest is open for submissions until April 12. It looks to be a take-off of the famous Obfuscated C Contest. So far the record is 4.2 kilobits encoded per tweet, based on exploiting the fact that Twitter actually passes the full 31 bits of ISO 10646 (the international standard that Unicode is based on), not the roughly 20.08 bits/character of Unicode itself."

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  1. Re:still useless by techno-vampire · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Huh, that's weird... I still don't have any use for twitter whatsoever.

    Personally, I've always found the name Twitter appropriate because AFAICT Twitter is just for twits.

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