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by evanb 1510 days ago
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
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280. Then the next one will be 187 (186.6666...).

    n[0] = 140

    n[k] = 2/k * n[k-1]
That is not an arithmetic progression; I chose my words carefully :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_progression

Knowing Musk he'd totally be down for changing it to 420.
Or perhaps 5420.
The prophecy will be fulfilled.