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Did you know? Text messages are limited to 160 characters because a communications researcher named Friedham Hillebrand sat down at his typewriter and wrote out a series of sentences and questions, deciding that 160 characters was enough to express a meaningful message. The creators of Twitter later followed suit and limited the "tweet" to 140 characters (keeping 20 for the user's address). source