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    sazius sazius Johnny Null

    @johnnynull My instance has 340 character limit, but I tend to stick with 140 not to be annoying to identi.ca users and others :)

    about 2 months ago from status.saz.im at Espoo, Province of Southern Finland, Finland
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    • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters

      Thank you. We !140 character Luddites appreciate your considerate denting.

      about 2 months ago
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      jpope jpope

      I try to do the same. It also depends on who I’m talking too, if I know their instance is >140, I’ll make it >140.

      about 2 months ago
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      nybillmoved nybillmoved

      I’m another one that rarely clicks on the extended text. And rarely clicks on cross-posted G+ links.

      about 2 months ago
  2. otaimer87 otaimer87 140 Characters

    kitchenaid in stumpedia http://www.stumpedia.com/profile/kitchen-aid-part.blogspot.com/2010/08/kitchenaid-ice-cream-maker.html !140c

    about a year ago from web
    • otaimer87 otaimer87 140 Characters

      kitchenaid ice cream maker in http://kitchen-aid-part.blogspot.com/2010/08/kitchenaid-ice-cream-maker.html !140c

      about a year ago from web
      • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm

        Thinking of using that account more, but then I'm really invisible. It's on identi.ca everything happens.

        Saturday, 24-Apr-10 06:51:37 UTC from web
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        • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm libreuniverse

          @openuniverse Yes, I'll see what they say, but as of now, there's only one ore two subscribers there. Starting all from scratch.

          Saturday, 24-Apr-10 07:01:19 UTC
        • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm 140 Characters , Posterous

          But at least I'm getting rid of !140, that's about the only reason I can think of. Maybe for blog stuff, but there's !posterous for that.

          Saturday, 24-Apr-10 07:03:09 UTC
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          libreuniverse libreuniverse

          @sunny256 "140 is not enough" is becoming an increasingly popular sentiment. i like the idea of compatib…

          Saturday, 24-Apr-10 07:18:07 UTC
      • Gold Gold Stav Prodromou

        @stav Not a big fan of the iPad?

        Thursday, 15-Apr-10 17:49:26 UTC from web at Mountain View, California, United States
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        • joshix joshix exador23

          @exador23 Swimmingly. Yourself?

          Friday, 16-Apr-10 08:32:04 UTC
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          exador23 exador23 joshix

          @joshix good, but wiped out.

          Friday, 16-Apr-10 08:33:35 UTC
        • frankenspock frankenspock joshix

          @joshix I've missed you, too.

          Friday, 16-Apr-10 09:27:44 UTC
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        exador23 exador23 Stav Prodromou

        @stav@identi.ca avg char count = 130 here.

        Wednesday, 14-Apr-10 21:50:31 UTC from exador.status.net
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          exador23 exador23 Stav Prodromou

          @stav then you should understand the influence an artificial limit has on the assumed randomness of t…

          Wednesday, 14-Apr-10 22:17:26 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou

          @exador23 That statement is true no matter what the limit value. 140, 300, or 7000000 O_o

          Wednesday, 14-Apr-10 22:22:13 UTC
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          exador23 exador23 Stav Prodromou

          @stav i'm just glad that sentence made sense. i hated statistics, and unfortunately my quasi-specialt…

          Wednesday, 14-Apr-10 22:27:50 UTC
      • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm Ubuntu users , Bourne Again SHell group

        Getting rid of damn #dash as /bin/sh symlink in !Ubuntu, using !bash instead. Solves many problems, e.g. /tmp mounted with 1Mb size.

        Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 07:57:00 UTC from web
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        • Steve Beattie Steve Beattie

          @sunny256: ummm, say what? dash v. bash should have no impact on the size of paritions, including /tmp.

          Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:57:44 UTC
        • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm Posterous , Børge A. Roum

          @forteller A great idea! Could really work, something along the lines of twitlonger.com . BTW, cool you're on !Posterous. I love that place.

          Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 09:23:34 UTC
        • Øyvind A. Holm Øyvind A. Holm Steve Beattie

          @smb Something about !dash and the /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp init script makes Ubuntu 9.04 mount /tmp/ as "overflow" and 1Mb size.

          Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 09:29:12 UTC
      • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou Identi.ca , 140 Characters

        What the?? Got > !140c dent from @bugabundo from #brainbird. Clicked on the #ellipses and the entire dent displayed right here in !identica

        Saturday, 03-Apr-10 20:52:40 UTC from web at Mountain View, California, United States
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          HippySteve HippySteve Gregg H

          @greggish i'm not sure about that. would be ok if it didn't cut into the truncated display. i prefer the cleaner look though.

          Sunday, 04-Apr-10 04:58:05 UTC
        • Gregg H Gregg H HippySteve

          @exador23 maybe have the char count number displayed when you hover on the "..." button.

          Sunday, 04-Apr-10 05:00:02 UTC
        • 0u 0u Gregg H

          @greggish and it should be the same button, of course

          Sunday, 04-Apr-10 08:35:01 UTC
      • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou

        In Weed, CA, SF Chronicle writer Tom Stienstra & wife were arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale http://ur1.ca/t14w

        Saturday, 03-Apr-10 01:45:33 UTC from web at Mountain View, California, United States
        • frankenspock frankenspock

          @stav That's almost a tautology.

          Saturday, 03-Apr-10 01:58:18 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters , frankenspock

          @frankenspock I try hard to not repeat myself. After all, there's only !140c available. :-)

          Saturday, 03-Apr-10 02:04:20 UTC
      • Hippy Steve Hippy Steve Identi.ca , 140 Characters

        i can't wait till in-stream > !140 handling comes to !identica http://brainbird.net/group/brainbird

        Friday, 19-Mar-10 02:23:49 UTC from web
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        • Douglas Wilson Douglas Wilson

          @exador23 Thanks. I like that. So SMS users would just get the first 140c regardless of length?

          Friday, 19-Mar-10 03:12:55 UTC
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          Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou Sarven Capadisli , Brion Vibber

          @exador23 The code that @brionv and @csarven did? Yeah, it'll come out in a few days after we've tested it.

          Friday, 19-Mar-10 04:18:11 UTC
        • Hippy Steve Hippy Steve Sarven Capadisli , Brion Vibber , Evan Prodromou

          @evan good news. that's some great code. thanks @brionv and @csarven!!

          Friday, 19-Mar-10 04:25:19 UTC
      • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou Nate Prodromou , drpro

        @drpro @nate Kan UNI MiSt Md Ten Gtwn Ok St OSU Syr FSU But Vnyd X Pitt Fla KSt KY TX Corn Wis Wash NM Mo WV Duk Cal TAM Pur OD Bay Rich Vil

        Thursday, 18-Mar-10 05:22:19 UTC from web at Mountain View, California, United States
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        • 0u 0u

          @stav no bo ho so ko ro to so, bo-ko-do-zo-go-fo-po-jo to you too

          Thursday, 18-Mar-10 05:27:36 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters , drpro

          @drpro experienced !140c microblgger

          Thursday, 18-Mar-10 14:09:36 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 0u

          @openuniverse NCAA basketball tournament picks on the record

          Thursday, 18-Mar-10 14:11:11 UTC
      • Børge A. Roum Børge A. Roum StatusNet , 140 Characters , Evan Prodromou , Brion Vibber

        @evan @brionv An idea for making !StatusNet better and (maybe) make everyone happy regarding !140c limits http://post.ly/TEAA

        Tuesday, 16-Mar-10 17:51:55 UTC from Posterous
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        • foonetic (lnxwalt140) foonetic (lnxwalt140)

          @forteller That's not going to make everyone happy. @alphakamp's solution is good.

          Tuesday, 16-Mar-10 18:50:24 UTC
        • Børge A. Roum Børge A. Roum Zach Copley , foonetic (lnxwalt140)

          @zach @lnxwalt Thanks for your feedback! Please have a look at my comment here: http://post.ly/TEAA

          Tuesday, 16-Mar-10 19:37:13 UTC
        • foonetic (lnxwalt140) foonetic (lnxwalt140)

          @forteller I'd already read it, but now I've posted my response there.

          Tuesday, 16-Mar-10 19:56:36 UTC
      • EJC EJC

        I'm back. After 6 months!

        Friday, 12-Mar-10 20:06:06 UTC from web at Bernards Heath, St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 0u

          @openuniverse 'Tis true, >140 are readable. However, that does not assure one that they are worthy of being read. ;-)

          Saturday, 13-Mar-10 19:37:06 UTC
        • Ron K. Jeffries Ron K. Jeffries Stav Prodromou

          @stav wat a darne dminute. MY experimental community instance eronj.status.net allows 1000 char dents. Deal with it. ;

          Saturday, 13-Mar-10 19:44:55 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters , Ron K. Jeffries

          @rkj For fun, I sent myself a 2300-char dent from my status.net instance. It was #buttugly. I prefer the brevity of !140c

          Saturday, 13-Mar-10 20:10:52 UTC
      • Michele Ann Jenkins Michele Ann Jenkins Evan Prodromou

        @evan.status.net gimme a call! (hope I did that right)

        Saturday, 13-Mar-10 00:07:05 UTC from web at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou Ostatus.org , 0u

          @openuniverse It reminds me of razor blade wars. 2 blades, then 3. Quattro & Gillette's 5-blade Fusion. Are we going to see 5 @'s? !ostatus

          Saturday, 13-Mar-10 19:42:23 UTC
        • Sean Carmody Sean Carmody Gregg H

          @greggish I'm guessing it's because it refers to his identity on http://evan.status.net which happens to have an "evan" in it too.

          Saturday, 13-Mar-10 22:38:54 UTC
        • 0u 0u Stav Prodromou

          @stav no, but sooner or later there won't just be text and pictures but ogg video. not any day soon, unless it uses archive.org for storage

          Sunday, 14-Mar-10 03:24:48 UTC
      • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou Linux Outlaws Podcast , Ostatus.org , Fabian Scherschel , Dan Lynch

        Good discussion of !ostatus on !lo #140. @fabsh and @dantheman get it.

        Thursday, 11-Mar-10 02:37:43 UTC from web at Mountain View, California, United States
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        • Fabian Scherschel Fabian Scherschel Evan Prodromou

          @stav No worries. I meant long-term. Will shoot @evan an email when I get around to it...

          Thursday, 11-Mar-10 20:15:17 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou Fabian Scherschel

          @fabsh Repeat after me: "Compuserve e-mail. Compuserve e-mail ..."

          Thursday, 11-Mar-10 20:41:01 UTC
        • Fabian Scherschel Fabian Scherschel

          @stav :)

          Thursday, 11-Mar-10 20:41:16 UTC
      • Dan Dart Dan Dart Identi.ca

        Seems the average limit people want on !identica is 242 characters. Suppose that's sensible enough. (Not counting more, infinite or other)

        Tuesday, 09-Feb-10 18:15:11 UTC from web at Flixton, England, United Kingdom
        • Sarven Capadisli, Douglas A. Whitfield and Susan Pinochet like this.
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        • Hippy Steve Hippy Steve Stav Prodromou

          @stav Say Hello To The Real World. #statistics don't lie. (only statisticians) http://ur1.ca/lsal

          Friday, 19-Feb-10 21:56:49 UTC
        • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters , Kudos Group , Hippy Steve

          @exador23 This is 1st well-reasoned argument I've seen. There's nothing magical about !140. I posit there is need for a sane limit. !kudos

          Saturday, 20-Feb-10 02:52:39 UTC
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        • frankenspock frankenspock Stav Prodromou , Hippy Steve

          @stav I've given you the same damned argument and you know it. (Although @exador23 presented it much more nicely than I probably did.)

          Saturday, 20-Feb-10 03:10:21 UTC
      • Hippy Steve Hippy Steve 140 Characters

        It's hard to take the !140 folk too seriously when as many as 3 lines are taken up by noise http://pk.gd/mLL

        Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 04:26:23 UTC from Pikchur
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          Carlos Perilla Carlos Perilla

          @exador23 Oh! Sorry, they may got eaten while I was updating the site.

          Thursday, 18-Feb-10 05:20:34 UTC
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          Carlos Perilla Carlos Perilla

          @exador23 No it's a bit different (omb vs xmpp)

          Thursday, 18-Feb-10 18:51:18 UTC
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          Maxime Pelletier Maxime Pelletier

          @exador23 "This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning.

          Thursday, 18-Feb-10 19:42:50 UTC
      • Hippy Steve Hippy Steve 140 Characters

        filing in !140: the importance of precision in communication... English vs English Prime http://www.rawilson.com/quantum.html

        Monday, 15-Feb-10 18:40:53 UTC from web
        • Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou Identi.ca

          Planning a poll to decide the max # of chars on !identica. Candidates: <140, 140, 280, 512, 1024, no limit, other. Sound right?

          Friday, 29-Jan-10 20:56:26 UTC from web at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
          • Patricia F Anderson, Aric Gardner and László Torma and 4 others like this.
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          • Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou Jim Hughes

            @jimh no. What are you getting that from?

            Thursday, 04-Feb-10 14:53:43 UTC
          • Jim Hughes Jim Hughes

            @evan I got that from trying to post something via xmpp

            Thursday, 04-Feb-10 14:56:44 UTC
          • peanut peanut

            @evan definitly #limit140

            Tuesday, 09-Feb-10 21:12:43 UTC
        • Amy H. Amy H.

          right = write. Holy crap. Maybe I should take an English grammar class at the local community college.

          Wednesday, 27-Jan-10 23:06:28 UTC from Gwibber at Saginaw, Michigan, United States
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          • Amy H. Amy H. frankenspock

            @frankenspock: I try not to make that sort of mistake. I just had a beer; maybe that's the cause?

            Wednesday, 27-Jan-10 23:09:28 UTC
          • frankenspock frankenspock

            @gamerchick02 I didn't use to make those sorts of mistakes until I started micro-blogging. Maybe it's the format.

            Wednesday, 27-Jan-10 23:10:03 UTC
          • Stav Prodromou Stav Prodromou 140 Characters , frankenspock

            @frankenspock You can blame it on !140

            Wednesday, 27-Jan-10 23:11:21 UTC
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