International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries

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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Oblig Bill G misquote reference

[LostCluster]

140 characters should be enough for anybody!

So this is like .. a gzip & mimencode contest?

[Colin Smith]

Yay. I'll be sure to watch it carefully.

 

Longest Tweet

[Shadyman]

Mine's 140 characters! What do I win?

Re:Longest Tweet

[Nerdfest]

That's not what they mean. Check this out:

Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Amateur.

Re:still useless

[WrongSizeGlass]

but to be honest, I can't see why anyone who doesn't already know would care, and if they did I think I'd be a bit creeped out by it.

@MisephWatch: #Miseph /.'d again; still clueless. Handing him off - who's got him next? Waiting for fave color & crew or v-neck preference

Re:still useless

[eln]

From what I hear, you can post tweets as the President of the United States now. So, maybe posting about your latest bowel movement bores you, but posing as Barack Obama and announcing you just nuked Nunavut seems pretty exciting to me!

Re:I sometimes wonder

[damn_registrars]

document our times to posterior generations

I don't know about you, but I would prefer to keep my posterior out of this ...

Re:still useless

[Anonymous Coward]

The sad part is, I read it.