Because Twitter is a microblogging site. Microblogs allow users to send a small elements of texts and/or links of images, videos and sites. However, there is a site called "twitlonger" that allow users to post messages that exceeds 140 characters.
Veery unlikely. A SMS message is sent in 'blocks' of up to 160 characters - and are charged at the service-provider's 'standard' rate. Long messages (that are more than 160 characters) are charged in multiples of the standard text rate. For example - if text messages were charged at 10p - and your mesage went over 160 characters (but less than 320) - you would be charged 20p
sms
Short Message Service, a protocol that supports transmission of text only messages up to 160 characters long.
Friedhelm Hillebrand, experimented with number of characters around 1985. He tried random sentences and questions and then counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces. It seemed to always come short of 160 characters. Not sure if that would be enough he tried comparing it to other things and sure enough text found on postcards at that time was averaging on 150 characters.
when typing your text and you go over 160 characters your words should wrap onto a new text slate and that will send to the person no matter how long.
Many people want to text. Texting is a very popul;ar activity that people do on their cell phones and other mobile devices. Text messages are usually 160 characters or less and often made up of abbreviated words.
Most of the mobile phones allow for text messages of 144 to 160 characters only. If you type a longer sms, it allows you to type it as one text, but the receiver gets it split into multiple messages. The breaking up of long texts that your phone does, is splitting sms text. Hope this helps. Thanks
SMS messaging stands for short messaging service which is a small text message of no more than 160 characters. These messages are sent from one cell phone to another.
160 characters it all depends on what phone
there was 160% increase in text messaging than phone calls were made
because if you text more than 160 characters then it sends the message as 2 texts, therefore charging u for 2 texts. it is to use less characters
According to their own web-site - it costs 10p per text. Remember, though - long texts are sent in 'blocks' of 160 characters. If you send a text longer than 160 characters, you'll be charged for each block (or part).