Examples of using "140" in a sentence and their english translations:
- He weighs about 300 pounds.
- He weighs around 300 pounds.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
That's almost 300 pounds of killing machine. And he hasn't spotted me.
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?
I think Twitter is not very popular in Germany. 140 characters is approx two words in German.