The Longest Tweet In History: 247 Characters

by Truemorist | July 9, 2009 at 03:04 pm

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Wow. Some guy tweeted a tweet that's 247 characters long. The longest tweet in history.

Is it a bug or a feature? Depends on how much you like #spymaster and hearing about people's cats.

Here's how it was done:

So how did Buley do it? Twitter famously doesn't allow messages of more than 140 characters. However, Twitter's programmable API now allows messages up to 247 characters to slip through. All messages are truncated at 136 characters; Twitter then uses the remaining four characters to display a space and ellipsis.

The ellipsis is hyperlinked, though, which takes you to the tweet status page, where the extended tweet lives comfortably like a giant anaconda in a glass box.

Hey, I'm acting like I care. At least you could give a bit of an effort.

Taylor Buley did.