International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries

An anonymous reader writes "The 1st International Longest Tweet Contest is open for submissions until April 12. It looks to be a take-off of the famous Obfuscated C Contest. So far the record is 4.2 kilobits encoded per tweet, based on exploiting the fact that Twitter actually passes the full 31 bits of ISO 10646 (the international standard that Unicode is based on), not the roughly 20.08 bits/character of Unicode itself."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F03%2F25%2F2134228%2FInternational-Longest-Tweet-Contest-Seeks-Entries" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=International+Longest+Tweet+Contest+Se eks+Entries%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fat437v" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/03/25/2134228/International-Longest-Tweet-Contest-Seeks-Entries?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k0CpTte1eJnab-_txexCB4IBnr8/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k0CpTte1eJnab-_txexCB4IBnr8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k0CpTte1eJnab-_txexCB4IBnr8/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/k0CpTte1eJnab-_txexCB4IBnr8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/EfUh0gjtDsE" height="1" width="1"/

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