How much information can you cram into 140 chars

2 points by pepijndevos 16y ago ↗ HN

Are some languages more suitable for tweeting? Like Chinese(char per word?) or Fins(long words?).

Hw mch cn u str whl kpng th txt rdbl?

How much data can you store when giving up readability?

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Depends. Can I gzip it?

Sure, if you think you can get binary data across the Twitter api. Otherwise you'd have to base64 encode it :D

You can post binary via Twitter, yes.

Only if you include the decompression algorithm in the text to make it self decompressing.