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You probably already figured that the length constraint on individual text messages had something to do with early bandwidth limitations, but why 160 characters? Turns out it’s largely because in 1985, a German fellow named Friedhelm Hillebrand sat down and started typing out random sentences and questions and found that almost all of them came in under 160 characters.
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Are you on Twitter? If not you should think about it. You don’t have to be a rockstar to get people to listen – you just have to have something interesting to say, like @theideamechanic.
You know two people I like to follow on Twitter? @copyblogger and @shepherdfx … they’re amazing!
The good and the bad about Twitter is you only have 140 characters to say what you’re going to say. The bad news is you always seem to have more to say than will fit into 140 characters.
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