Twitter Broken, Allows Posts Larger Than 140 Characters

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Twitter Character LimitIt was revealed yesterday that a bug in Twitter would allow enterprising individuals to send Tweets longer than 140 characters.

The bug was first exploited in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group when Chris White gave a step-by-step account of how to allow for the new Tweet length.

The process was simple, visit http://twitter.com/share?url= using Firefox and then put your Tweet in after the “?url=” section of the URL and click enter.

The users Tweet box will then show the http://t.co/ shorted URL, click on the tweet button and your full length message will now be sitting in your Twitter account.  [Read more…]

TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book?

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tweetbookz-logoI’ve written just over 4,000 tweets since I signed up for Twitter several years ago, but I think I’d be hard-pressed to choose 200 of a high enough quality to turn into a book.

However, new startup TweetBookz has decided there must be enough Twitter fanatics who would like to do just that.

Cofounders Jacob Schwirtz and Asael Kahana said that the service offered a “fun way to look back on your favourite tweets and capture all the emotion of those moments to keep forever.” [Read more…]