Originally, these ads only described the product, but others included driving safety messages. Twitter is a messaging service where your messages are restricted in length, so to get a longer essay sent, you will need to break it up in smaller fragments — like the Burma-Shave messages, although the whole of the text of this comic is considerably less than characters and would not need to be broken up on Twitter.
Cueball gets five messages from Twitter on his device that give the following message: On Twitter feeds - An odd regression: - Ancient memes - Find new expression - Burma-shave. This relates that this old way ancient-memes of getting a message through when only having a limited space now again an odd regression flourishes on Twitter feeds - Burma-shave Firefox 2 had the longest standing annoying bug where only the initial part of the title text were shown as a tool-tip, creating a "Burma-Shave" effect of only being able to see some of the text.
Unlike Burma-Shave, where you would see the rest of the text as you were driving down the highway, Firefox didn't actually show you the rest of the text unless you right-clicked show-property, and you would be able to see a sideways scrollable field of the title-text in the properties for the image. The joke in this title text is composed of five broken tool-tips from Firefox, and the message is that you should upgrade your browser from Firefox 2. Any other browser would do in order to improve your reading experience when browsing through xkcd!
High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by. Tweets are characters long. There are 26 letters in English—27 if you include spaces. But Twitter doesn't limit you to those characters. You have all of Unicode to play with, which has room for over a million different characters.
Of course, almost all of them would be meaningless jumbles of characters from a dozen different languages. Even if you're limited to the 26 English letters, the strings would be full of meaningless jumbles like "ptikobj". The answer involves German tanks, human extinction, and the most disputed statistics problem on the internet.
JephJacques , the author of Questionable Content , tweets a lot. His contribution to your timeline will be 36, tweets and rising.
On the other hand, if you follow people who don't tweet very much , it's possible your timeline to date could fit on a single screen. According to an analysis by Diego Basch , as of last year the "average" Twitter account had tweeted times and was following 51 people.
To get an idea of the typical timeline, I asked some friends to take a snapshot of their Twitter homepages and count the rate of tweets at that particular moment. The results covered a wide range—some were seeing 20 tweets per minute, some 20 tweets per month. Correcting [3] Multiplying by a random number between 0. On my computer's monitor, the average tweet is about 2. You can measure, too, but you'll have to use your computer instead of mine.
I'm using mine now to type this, so I need to be able to see the screen. This suggests that Jeph Jacques' tweet tower is meters tall—taller than the tallest building—and still growing. Combining Diego's July estimate with the current rate of tweets per day suggests there have been a total of about billion tweets as of October That means that if you followed every Twitter user, your timeline would be eight million kilometers high.
For comparison, here's the Earth, with your Twitter timeline next to it:. Of course What about the whole timeline? Our timelines aren't really as tall as skyscrapers—even virtually—because Twitter limits the number of past tweets you can see by scrolling. But can we estimate how tall our timelines will eventually be? Based on human lifespans, it seems likely that most of the accounts you follow will stop tweeting within a century. It's obviously impossible to predict for sure, but there's a strange tool from statistics that might help.
Suppose you're transported to an alternate universe. Based only on the title, how many Land Before Time movies do you think there are in this universe? Clearly there are at least 27, and probably more. Allied troops faced a version of this problem in World War II.
German tank parts had serial numbers, many of which were sequential 1, Suppose they captured a random tank.
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