Twitter To Extend 140-Character Limit For Tweets (recode.net)

An anonymous reader writes: According to Re/code, Twitter is doing away with its 140-character limit for tweets. The company is currently planning on increasing the limit to 10,000 characters, though the final number may change before they roll it out. "Twitter is currently testing a version of the product in which tweets appear the same way they do now, displaying just 140 characters, with some kind of call to action that there is more content you can't see. Clicking on the tweets would then expand them to reveal more content. The point of this is to keep the same look and feel for your timeline, although this design is not necessarily final, sources say."

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Camera orientation must match that of device

[tepples]

I don't get why cell phone manufacturers don't have a feature to record a proper horizontal video while holding the phone vertically.

Because the Android CDD requires the camera to have the same orientation as the screen. Section 7.5.5 (Camera Orientation) states:

Both front- and rear-facing cameras, if present, MUST be oriented so that the long dimension of the camera aligns with the screen’s long dimension. That is, when the device is held in the landscape orientation, cameras MUST capture images in the landscape orientation. This applies regardless of the device’s natural orientation; that is, it applies to landscape-primary devices as well as portrait-primary devices.

So in the CDD's terms, what you're asking for is a way to crop 9:16 video down to 4:3 while recording it.

Re:An IDIOTIC decision by Twitter

[arth1]

140 characters equals 280 bytes.

Windows UTF-16 user spotted!

The 140 character limit in Twitter is based on SMS, which is max 160 7-bit characters or 140 8-bit characters.

(Later, it was extended to also support 70 16-bit characters, which allows for Asian languages or emojis, but as soon as you use a single one, the max SMS length drops.)