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@Researchbuzz @rabbijill @kit So... one time I rendered a 100-tweet-long Seth Abramson thread in monospace font in a terminal as part of stress-testing a tool I wrote to turn threads into blog posts.

Based on the monospace font, I accidentally discovered that almost all of the tweets in the thread were edited to naturalistically land at exactly 140 characters.

This is absolutely an oulipian feat of poetics so in hindsight it all checks out

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@darius @Researchbuzz @rabbijill @kit The fact that Seth Abramson also ended each tweet in that thread on a sentence boundary is impressive.

Someone wrote a Super Metroid FAQ in blocktext (but not on sentence boundaries): gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588

Twitter thread about it: twitter.com/mattgemmell/status

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