Posted Sep 14, 2010 10:22 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
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I don't use twitter because nothing intelligent can be written in 140 characters.
Why not compress messages with a Huffman code of word frequency (140 chars is too short for gzip to work, but if you have a separate table of English word frequency you could do something) and then base64 encode?
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Posted Sep 14, 2010 10:57 UTC (Tue) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289)
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"How much information is in a tweet?" The result: about 4,370 bits.
Some cool tricks involved :)
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Posted Sep 15, 2010 14:55 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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The post is intelligent, thus self-disproving, thus wrong, thus cannot be intelligent because no intelligent person would write something 140 characters yet wrong. Thus it is a 140-character paradox. This is, of course, an intelligent thing to post.
(My head is spinning.)
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Posted Sep 20, 2010 4:52 UTC (Mon) by jtc (subscriber, #6246)
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echo "I don't use twitter because nothing intelligent can be written in 140 characters. (Hmm, pipe this post through wc -c and see what happens.)"|wc
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