2017-11-24 UTC
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snarfed !tell tantek thanks! i actually fixed it the day after it happened. https://github.com/kylewm/brevity/issues/8 . tldr: when they launched 280 chars, twitter also substantially changed the way they *count* chars. https://twittercommunity.com/t/updating-the-character-limit-and-the-twitter-text-library/96425/1