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Twitter野史记载着下面这段话:AndsincetheworldwidestandardlengthofSMS(ortextmessagesonphones)is160-characters,thefoundersofTwitterthoughtitwisetostaywithinthatboundssoasnottoinundatepeople’sphoneswith3or4staggered,delayed,orevenpartiallymissing4-partmessages.140-characterswaschosenasagoodlength,leaving20charactersfortheusernameofthesender.Thisway,anyonereceivingatweetviaSMSwouldgetthewholetweetinasingletextmessage,withnothingspillingoverintoasecondorthirdmessagethatpopsupminuteslater.也就是说,Twitter早期是为Web和手机间的信息通讯而设计的。过长的短信会被运营商分割,因网络原因导致收件先后错乱也时有发生,一条短信就能说明白多好啊。一条手机短信的长度支持160个字符,创始人觉得保留20个字符给发件人署名比较合适,于是就剩下了140个。