I'm sure as is the case with most of you who use Twitter, I've found myself on many occasions struggling to get my message to fit in the 140 characters allotted by our friends at Twitter. - 48 ... shit.
Errr...
Sometimes it's hard to say what you want to say in 140 characters, let alone RTs and @peoples' names included. Agreed? 21 ....Phewf!
So without further ado, below is 40 possible reasons why the people at Twitter may have cut off our form of expression at 140 characters.
Would love to hear your suggestions...let's get it to 140 shall we?
1. 139 just doesn't sound cool.
2. Someone at Twitter was inspired because they got laid here? http://www.hotel140.com/
3. Bea Arthur was turning 140 the year Twitter was created.
4. Perhaps it had something to do with this moron: http://t.co/9Hq6tJa
5. Jack Dorsey loves to fish and can't do without the fish finder 140: cf-lg.jpg
6. Who has time to read 141 characters anymore?
7. The original address was 140 from which 'Twitter operated?
8. Maybe because Mashable requested it.
9. I'm at 9 and i have a long way to go, holy shit!
10. Twitter was built on this bad boy: http://lowendmac.com/pb/powerbook-140.html
11. Stupid people say stupid things. Do you really want to read more than 140 characters of nonsense?
12. "I want your ugly, i want your disease . I want your everything as long as it's free. I want your love. Love , love , love I want your love ." - Is exactly 140 characters.
13. The average American woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds. This site was dedicated to their average wives?
14. 1 year ago, Ashton Kutcher complained that there weren't enough characters for his inspiring messages and so they shortened it to 140 from 160 just to spite him.
15. There are 73 calories in 140 grams of Golden Delicious Apples. I bet this is the reason!
16. Is it because Mozart died in 140 ways? http://t.co/d5UsbMo
17. A geoduck can live to 140 years old! The F*ck's a geoduck? http://www.manandmollusc.net/geoduck.html
18. If you have a lisp, you're probably adding an 's' to every word. That will dramatically eat up you characters.
19. It probably started out at 100 but then they needed to add spaces so that teens didn't write like this "Yowadupwhereyoubbeenshiiiticalledyoulike5timesbro"
20. Does 140 mean anything in Scientology?
21. By day 140, a baby has eyelashes and all of their bones have developed in their womb. I know, this is more fact than reason.
22. Characters and spaces take up about one fourth of your tweets.
23. Kim Kardashian's address is at 140 somethin' somethin'.
24. Perhaps someone at Twitter is fond of this: http://www.trailruntimes.com/?p=830 . Puke.
26. There is a 140 calorie difference between Coke and Diet Coke. Oh, it's a diet thing.
27. A Twitter username can be up to 15 characters. When you add RT@, you've used up 18 characters without writing a thing.
28. Time Magazine's top 140 Twitter feeds: http://t.co/9yHWfJb
29. Perhaps they figured there were only 140 things to do on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ePUH6m
30. It is the maximum number of characters of one text message. This would be a dumb reason.
31. Oprah owns a 140 countries...and counting. She could 'Own' Twitter too but chose to be merciful.
32. The driving distance from San Francisco (Twitter HQ) to Tuolumne, CA is 140 miles...the commuting is killing someone!
33. Someone at Twitter got Swine Flu and then read this. http://t.co/fmUqBLN
34. 140 cm = Approximately 4 feet 6 inches. How tall is Justin Bieber?
35. On the 140th day, the team finally decided to go with Twitter over Twatter. It won by just one vote. True Story.
36. "140" was the original name for the movie "300" when they just didn't have it in their budget to pay for that many muscled men.
37. For some reason, 140 is the highest Snooki can count to...no idea why.
38. An elephant has 140 bones...we have 206. An elephant's trunk doesn't have a bone...and guess what, neither does a man's trunk. Cool huh?
39. The Twitter team enjoy stimulating their immune system....140 benefits of Probiotics. http://probiotics.org/what-are-all-the-lactobacillus-probiotics-benefits/
40. Twitter has dedicated its 140 characters to Charlie Sheen's 140 Goddesses.
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