How Old Were You When You First Got a Cell Phone?
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I'm old (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I'm old (Score:5, Informative)
Fun Fact: A tweet is actually 160 characters, but the first 20 are automatically reserved for an internally-used user ID.
Re:I'm old (Score:2, Informative)
Actually it's not.
Twitter was originally SMS-based, where you would write a post (they didn't call them tweets back then), and it would get forwarded to all your followers via SMS. Obviously the SMS to your friends had to be prefixed with your username, so that's what the 20 characters at the start were reserved for.
And, yes, it's still possible to use Twitter exclusively via SMS.
Re:The 1990s (Score:4, Informative)
Of course not. You'd have to cross my lawn to do so, and I have strict rules about that! :)