I see how to fix it,I have to html unescape the tweet, is it safe to
html unescape  all tweets ?

On Aug 4, 4:58 pm, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Characters are not necessarily a single byte.  Which are you counting?
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> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Jason Toy <jason...@gmail.com> 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:
> > "&lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt;
> > &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt;
> > &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt;
> > &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt; &lt;*)))&gt;&lt;
> > #phish #sbix"
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> > 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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> > Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature 
> > onhttps://dev.twitter.com/discussionsyet?
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