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Feb 14, 2008 14:05

If twitter.com restricted posts to 10 characters length, their english members would burn through* all 3,656,158,440,000,000 possible unique posts** in just over 25 million years - sometime in June of 25044189***. As it is Twitter actually allows posts of up to 140 characters in length, which pushes that mark significantly further hence - a year of such magnitude as no one has bothered to name - millions of millennia after the sun has cooled and disappeared. And I can't wait.

* Assumes approximately half of their approximate 800,000 members are posting in english once per day. Also assumes members are policing uniqueness of posts. Also assumes their member count will not move from it's present (admittedly dynamic) number
** Assumes english alphabet of 26 characters (case insensitive) and 10 punctuation characters including
*** In the future this month will be known as Space-June
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