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1st International Longest Tweet Results

Posted by timothy on from the sewn-up-by-mockingbirds dept.

Dr_Evil6_6_6 writes "Slashdot had a story about the 1st International Longest Tweet Contest last month, and the winners have just been announced." The winner is impressive.

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  1. Re:Looking at that entry by Volguus+Zildrohar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't get it?

    A weak, inexplicable imitation of earlier, better tech?

    That's Twitter in a nutshell.

    --
    When confronted with one problem, some think "I'll use recursion". Now they are confronted with one problem.
  2. Erm ... by daveime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except for the fact the algorithms he has submitted have NOTHING to do with compression, and are just a method of mapping the 4339 bits into the allowable Unicode character set over 140 x 32 bit character "slots", i.e. encoding / decoding only.

    With 4339 bits, hell in theory the longest actual tweet you could make is 2^4339 of any single character you choose, using the 4339 bits just to represent a (very large) counter of how many times to repeat the character.

    Considering that 2^4339 is approximately 10^1305, and there are probably only 10^82 atoms in the whole universe, that's one bloody long tweet.