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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Could you verify this,   Oh Great Unicode Experts of the Python-List?
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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.

-- 
Greg