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1. Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 19:46:18 EDT Snake Girl Ellie

   Before today, I knew: the reason Twitter was originally limited to 140 characters was so it could be transmitted over SMS (which was limited to 1120 bits, or 160 7-bit characters).

   TIL: the reason SMS is limited to 160 7-bit characters is because Friedhelm Hillebrand, who was the chairman of the non-voice services committee within the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), found that a) the average sentence was <160 characters, and b) that matched the average postcard.

   1. Dr. Equivalent the Incredible (drequivalent@mastodonsocial.ru)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 21:42:54 EDT Dr. Equivalent the Incredible

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      @noelle that's a glaring fucking incompetence.