For those concerned about the possible bandwidth issues or scalability issues Twitter might have implementing their 'even more' characters, don't forget we can post upwards of a 2-3MB JPEG and Twitter handles it just fine.
I always liked the idea of stuffing data in metadata. For me, most tweets are insubstantial and thinly veiled metadata. There are always those claiming a tweet 'means' something but the context is usually entirely missing, hence the phenomenon of 'subtweets' and worse: the dreaded tweetstorm.
I could even encode arbitrary data in a JPEG if I wanted and get back data byte for byte. I just wonder what my followers would make of such tweets and if they are clever enough to fuzz the JPEG for meaning and context.
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For those concerned about the possible bandwidth issues or scalability issues Twitter might have implementing their 'even more' characters, don't forget we can post upwards of a 2-3MB JPEG and Twitter handles it just fine.
I always liked the idea of stuffing data in metadata. For me, most tweets are insubstantial and thinly veiled metadata. There are always those claiming a tweet 'means' something but the context is usually entirely missing, hence the phenomenon of 'subtweets' and worse: the dreaded tweetstorm.
I could even encode arbitrary data in a JPEG if I wanted and get back data byte for byte. I just wonder what my followers would make of such tweets and if they are clever enough to fuzz the JPEG for meaning and context.