Re: Creative people on Twitter

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2010 - 18:08:31 CDT

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    2010/10/13 Frédéric Grosshans <frederic.grosshans@m4x.org>:
    > Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 à 13:29 -0400, David Starner a écrit :
    >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko@gmail.com> wrote:
    >> > I guess it’s only a matter of ð­ð¢ð¦ðž before people start doing
    >> > things like ð–™ð–ð–Žð–˜ (notice this email is plain-text).
    >>
    >> Not that soon on Twitter, as Twitter apparently runs a filter and cuts
    >> off all characters above U+FFFF a couple weeks after posting.
    >>
    > Which would means that twitter does not want to archive emojis and some
    > cantonese ideographs. That sounds strange.

    Apparently a tweet before that point is a string of 32-bit integers,
    including all those wonderful characters above U+10FFFF. Given that,
    I'm assuming this is incompetence, not a willful choice to exclude
    characters. 

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