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The opposite problem sucks just as bad:

"first 160 characters... and then I calle"

"d joe_blow to tell him about the secret company merger"




reminds me of the shitty email filter the school I taught at back in the late 90s used. It would filter out curse words but it ignored spaces so if you typed something like "push it" is would see "sh it" and delete those letters. It rendered your emails basically unreadable.


Ha, ours was really naive about URLs. A lot of teachers got annoyed by it constantly blocking Weightwatchers :)


Magically aligning a perfect string at a 160 character offset, and somehow have it being a user who would have any idea about what you're discussing? A total non-problem.


I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of tweets that are typed every day.


Bizarre edge case with a non-zero chance of happening? Someone will inevitably stumble across it...


It's not magic.




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