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The 140 character restriction was made for him.
And for Twitter, the character restriction makes you think about what you really want to say, which is a time-saver for everyone.
Gmail Lite should borrow the character restriction from Twitter and enforce it.
The 140 character "restriction" was originally introduced because that's how long a text message generally is.
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Facebook ironically does not impose any character restrictions on its users.
∎ "Masks" are placed on phone number, health card number, and date of birth fields to ensure that they fall within certain character restrictions or conform to a particular format.
Some users toyed with the current 140-character restriction.
The company is notably backed by the Obvious Corporation, the incubator from Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman, which is also home to Medium, a blogging platform that sits somewhere between long-form blog posts and the 140-character restrictions of Twitter.
Its novelty comes not only from its size, but also from the non real-time nature of conversations, from the 140 character length restriction, from the wide variety of social relation types, and from a design that was initially not geared towards conversation at all.
This has been achieved either by focusing sequence coverage within or adjacent to genomic regions of distinct biochemical character, such as restriction sites with restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) and related methods [ 14, 15], or by combining information across regions using a reference genome sequence [ 16, 17].
In a separate blog post, Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann describes the aim of the new app, comparing its six-second maximum video length to Twitter's 140-character tweet restrictions: "Posts on Vine are about abbreviation — the shortened form of something larger," writes Hofmann.
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