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I think of 140 as the limit of SMS messages. Not twitter.

It's 160 (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS )

Exactly. IIRC, Twitter went to 140 for space for an ad or something... I've been trying to find other services that aren't affiliated with Twitter who use 140 characters and have come up empty.

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