Interesting fact: most Tweets posted are approximately 30 characters long

If you've ever wondered how long the average Tweet is, then this graph should answer some questions for you. Created by Twitter employee Isaac Hepworth, it is a sampling of...

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Twitter Debuts User Testimonials, Er, Stories: For When 140 Characters Are Not Enough

Last year, Twitter debuted a marketing campaign, called Twitter Tales, that showcased ways in which users interact with the microblogging platform. Today, the company is launching a similar campaign, called Twitter Stories, which seems to show interesting Tweets and ways the site's users are communicating via the platform.

For example, Maureen Evans uses Twitter to share recipes with users. Aaron Durand was able to save his mother's bookstore using Twitter. Well-known film critic Roger Ebert u [...]

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All Links 20 Characters Or More Are Now Being Shortened With Twitter’s “t.co”

Like Bit.ly? Unfortunately, it might be going the way of Twitpic and the dinosaurs soon, if Twitter has anything to do with it.Today officially marks the day that all links on Twitter which are greater than or equal to 20 characters will be automatically shortened using t.co, Twitter's own URL shortener. And by automatic, we do mean automatic – you don't have a say in this whatsoever.


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The Best Of @TW1TT3Rart – Twitter Art In 140 Characters (Or Less)

As we know, updates on Twitter consist of tweets that are made up of 140 characters, or less, and most people – almost everyone, in fact – limits themselves to the normal characters we see on our keyboard: the alphabet, numbers and punctuation.Twitter, however, supports and allows anyone to use the full range of ASCII characters in tweets, and the @TW1TT3Rart (Twitter Art) account has been using this to its full advantage.

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For The Twitter Age: The Mona Lisa In 140 Characters

Well, 140 dots might be a little more accurate, but this re-imagining of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa has been reduced and remixed down to just 140 circles of colour.It doesn’t look like much close up. But walk ten paces back from your screen and it’s pretty incredible stuff.

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MediaRoost now supports Tweets beyond 140 characters

Today, MediaRoost, a social media startup serving clients in the CRM, sales, marketing and PR industries announced its enterprise Twitter platform, TweetRoost, will now support tweets beyond Twitter’s 140 character limit. This feature is essentially turning Twitter into a handy CRM system.

“We think it’s a great bonus for companies, especially those dealing with continuous inquiries related to customer service and support issues,” explained Mark Krieger, President of MediaRoost in the [...]

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