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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. Oblig Bill G misquote reference by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Funny

    140 characters should be enough for anybody!

  2. So this is like .. a gzip & mimencode contest? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

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

     

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  3. Longest Tweet by Shadyman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mine's 140 characters! What do I win?

    1. Re:Longest Tweet by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

      Amateur.

  4. Re:I sometimes wonder by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Funny

    document our times to posterior generations

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

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