Someone Tricked Twitter with a 35k character tweet

Had been you impressed when Twitter elevated its character restrict to 280? Two German males figured how you can trick Twitter into letting them put up a 35,000 character tweet. Twitter has since deleted the submit, though it lives without end on the Web Archive, the place you’ll be able to view it here.

The tweet begins off by saying (at the least, in line with Google translate) “Individuals! @Timrasett and @HackneyYT can exceed the character restrict! You don’t consider us? Right here’s about 35k characters proof.” Following that’s an incomprehensible string of characters that goes on and on and on and on.

In accordance with an Engadget report, the duo formatted a gibberish message as a URL and posted it on Twitter.

Twitter briefly banned the 2 customers, although their accounts have been again after a while.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the exploit has been mounted.

Presently, the 280-character tweet facility is offered to a small group of its 328 million customers however it could quickly be rolled out globally, Twitter has mentioned in a blog publish.

In accordance with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this can be a small change, however a giant transfer for them.

“The 140 limit was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit. Proud of how thoughtful the team has been in solving a real problem people have when trying to tweet. And at the same time maintaining our brevity, speed, and essence!” Dorsey had tweeted. 

Amusingly, final 12 months, Recode reported that Twitter was considering letting customers publish tweets of up to 10,000 characters in length, which is identical character restrict afforded to direct messages. Maybe Tim Rasett and HackneyYT weren’t even that far off the mark.