Characters are not necessarily a single byte. Which are you counting?
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Jason Toy wrote:
> I see some tweets going through my system that are over 140
> characters, for example tweet id: 86955808553844736 is 284
> characters.
> Here is the actual tweet:
> "<*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))><
> <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))><
> <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))><
> <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))>< <*)))><
> #phish #sbix"
>
> Do I need to encode it a special way to get it to fit under 140
> characters or does this restriction not apply anymore? My processing
> engine expects tweets to be under 140 characters.
>
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