Could you verify this, Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/11/2013 09:34 AM, MRAB wrote:
> If twitter counts characters, not codepoints, you could then ask
> whether it passes the codepoints through as given. If it does, then you
> experiment to see how much data you could send encoded as a sequence of
> combining codepoints. (You might want to check the Term of Use first,
> though! :-))

I've always wondered if the 160 character limit or whatever it is is a
hard limit in their system, or if it's just a variable they could tweak
if they felt like it.