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

[Prasad, Ramit]

Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 08/11/2013 11:54 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > Michael Torrie wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Isn't it for compatibility with SMS? Twitter could
> > probably change it, but persuading all the cell phone
> > networks to change at the same time might be rather
> > difficult.
> 
> Yes I think you're correct about it being limited for SMS.
> 
> However I know of no phone or network that won't let you use longer
> messages; multiple SMS packets are used and most phone paste them back
> together.  So no there's nothing that anyone needs to change to use
> longer messages if they so chose.  It's now just an arbitrary limit,
> part of the twitter culture.


True, but order of delivery is not guaranteed. I still sometimes
get out of order text message when multiple messages are sent
at once.


~Ramit



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