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Follow theideamechanic on Twitter

by Doug Foster on January 1, 2010

Are you on Twitter? If not you should think about it. You don’t have to be a rockstar to get people to listen to what you have to say – you just have to have something interesting to say.

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Why are text messages limited to 160 characters?

by Doug Foster on November 1, 2009

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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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