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stavros on April 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-Libyan URL Shortener

The problem is "I need 20 more characters for my Tweet". This is only solved by URL shorterners, at the moment.

nickolai on April 28, 2011 [–]

Maybe we should try 'tweet compression'? Im sure you could pack a lot more text into 144 characters using the right compression algorithm.

Dammit i missed april fools day to announce my 'tweet compression' service :(

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