Someone posted the longest tweet ever with more than 30,000 characters
Just when Twitter expanding to 280 characters from its longtime 140-character limit seemed like an earth-shattering decision, a couple hackers blew the limit out of the water.
Over the weekend, a German-based account @Timrasett, along with the account @HackneyYT who was tagged on the tweet, hacked the not-so micro-blogging platform to post a tweet with a whopping 30,396-characters.
It's since been deleted, but the Internet Archive has preserved the lengthy tweet. Here's what part of the massive tweet looked like:
Although most of the tweet's text has no spaces and it appears to be a URL, as The Next Web reported, the long, long tweet still looked formidable as it stretched through users' Twitter feeds.
The first part of the tweet was in German and said (according to Google Translate), "People! @Timrasett and @HackneyYT can exceed the character limit! You do not believe us? Here is the approx. 35k character proof."
That message was followed by an insane number of (what appears to be) nonsense characters in a row.
Timrasett tweeted about the extra-long tweet after it was taken down, and explained that "we just wanted to show that Twitter is easy to crack."
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Take that, 280 characters.
Topics Cybersecurity X/Twitter
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
