Comments on: Twitter Clone Nano Blog Chuitter Limits 14 Letters Instead Of 140

By: Asiajin » Twitter Mobile Version Now Limits 140 “Bytes” Not “letters”

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:23:35 +0000

[...] At the same time, mobile.twitter.com seems to accept maximum 140 bytes, which had been 140 letters. It is the same for English users but as one Japanese letters (in UTF-8) uses 3-4 bytes, now you can only make about 40 letters tweet. (I once wrote how much Japanese 140 letters can express complicate things.) [...]

By: We do not Tweet, We Plurk « Something more than Facebook & Twitter

We do not Tweet, We Plurk « Something more than Facebook & Twitter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:51:33 +0000

[...] since the “14 words limitation” made me wordless and could talk only like a poet. (see this) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Plurk like you would TweetHow to Embed Plurk [...]

By: Asiajin » Twitter Japan Enables Retweet Button

Asiajin » Twitter Japan Enables Retweet Button — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:00:21 +0000

[...] nature, Japanese can convey more than doubled information with the same 140 letters than English, so many of Japanese tweets have more room to add comments with “unofficial” RT. Many [...]

By: Asiajin » Japan’s First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way

Asiajin » Japan’s First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:55:58 +0000

[...] I recently wrote on another article, Japanese can convey roughly doubled information in the same 140 letters limit to English. I cannot translate it within 140 in [...]

By: Digital East Asia » Blog Archive » Chuitter Is Japan’s Version of Twitter But Much Much Shorter

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:38:55 +0000

[...] on Asiajin, there is uncertainty whether this service is intended as a serious competitor to Twitter — [...]

By: Japan Says Chuitter: Twitterへの日本の反撃「ちゅいったー」 | 豚カツうまっ！！

Japan Says Chuitter: Twitterへの日本の反撃「ちゅいったー」 | 豚カツうまっ！！ — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:57:36 +0000

[...] users to push their creativity by writing short poem, such as haikus. Read the full story on Asiajin blog. Tags Categories strange, web [...]

By: Asiajin » The World Shortest URL Shortener Using International Domain Name

Asiajin » The World Shortest URL Shortener Using International Domain Name — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:05:02 +0000

[...] Domain Name Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Akky Akimoto Yesterday I introduced a crazy 14 letters twitter clone and how much Japanese are obsessed with smallness. And today I am amazed [...]

By: despuesdegoogle » Blog Archive » Chuitter, el nano Twitter: 14 caracteres

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:56:21 +0000

[...] Clon japonés (¿cómo no?) de Twitter, del que copia look y funcionamiento. Lo nuevo: un 90% más de brevedad. De 140 caracteres a sólo 14. Minimalismo oriental, ¿quién sabe?, hubiese podido funcionar si Twitter no se hubiese convertido ya en estándar de facto en la red y en nuestros esquemas psicológicos: somos animales de costumbres. Aunque el reduccionismo de la escritura japonesa justifica el invento; de hecho, la inauguración del servicio en Japón está arrasando. [...]

By: Serkan Toto

Serkan Toto — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:46:18 +0000

Twitter is actually more “difficult” for Germans to use than for people using it in English. The words are significantly longer in German on average.