minimalist #TwitterArt

In Feb 2010 I found a hack to do minimalist #TwitterArt …Twitter just shut down my exploit. Never date & break-up with a Twitter Admin!

Guy Vincent - https://twitter.com/Guy_Vincent - discovered sometime early in 2010 an em-width space, that when you put a bunch of them together, Twitter would treat as a word, meaning the group of spaces wouldn't break. This made it possible for a tweet to be several lines high with just a few visible characters.

Then I discovered that I could start a line with a hard-space, but that the non-breaking space could not be copy/pasted, but had to be entered into the composition window by the Alt-0160 code. What I hadn't appreciated until recently was that this procedure made my antics on Twitter difficult to reverse engineer. Anyone who copy/pasted my tweets trying to steal them, would get non-functional tweets, because Twitter treats the hard space when pasted as a soft space.

Anyway, we're in a new era. Twitter's recent upgrade went to an active composition window, that changes a lot of things, and the hard space no longer functions (or if it does, I haven't found a way to use it yet). I found a temporary work-around of limited value. I don't really understand the new composition window; but I shouldn't feel bad, different browsers don't seem to understand it too well either; the rendering differences between Firefox & Chrome just got a lot more varied. Call me paranoid, but I suspect Twitter will soon shut-down my work-around. Cheers! @hg47

Links to my early #TwitterArt:

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/twit...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/mini...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/worl...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/art-...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/cate...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-t...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-t...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/obam...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/deve...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/play...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/turb...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-...

http://hg47.blogspot.com/2013/01/pre-...