Brief history of the 160 character length of SMS (2009)

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I came across this, looking for the length limit for tweets (which are 20 for username/handle, 140 for content).

this article has many commonalities with wikipedia entry

sms should be considered as 140 bytes (not just 160 chars). it drops to 70 chars if you are to use unicode encoding.