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The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experienceThe Grumpy Editor's Twitter experiencePosted Sep 14, 2010 10:22 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience by dskoll Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience
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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The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience Posted Sep 14, 2010 10:57 UTC (Tue) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link]
http://blog.ksplice.com/2010/04/1st-international-longest...
"How much information is in a tweet?" The result: about 4,370 bits.
Some cool tricks involved :)
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