I don't think they count as 4 characters. I just tried: "< < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < " and it came through just fine, whereas it would be way over the limit if each '<' counted as 4 chars.
I'm sure they are all escaped for some html injection attack prevention, but I do think something is amiss with the encoding of &. -Chad On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:04 PM, TjL <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> In other words, either encode the whole tweet, or none of it, when >> providing tweets as data. > > And, in case anyone is voting, I really really wish that < and > > didn't count as 4 characters. It seems odd that it does when & and " > are encoded but only count as one. > > Related: There's no real need to encode the > is there? > > TjL >
