{"id":214,"date":"2017-11-16T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-02-11T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T06:14:34","slug":"how-twitter-solved-the-character-problem-for-different-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/how-twitter-solved-the-character-problem-for-different-languages","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter solved the character problem for different languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/twitter-design-research\/looking-after-number-one-forty-20da627e1f2e\">Great writeup<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshlikesdesign?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Josh Wilburne <\/a>of Twitter detailing the challenges of designing for the 140 character limit across the world. Two major aspects that stand out:<\/p>\n<p><b>Automatic density-based adjustments<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With this in mind, we designed a system that defines two types of written languages, dense and non-dense, and expands the character limit for non-dense languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Continuous insight<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While I thought removing the UI until it was relevant would help alleviate the stress of the character limit, it ended up having the opposite effect; people were unable to properly plan their Tweet since they had no feel for how far along they actually were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty to debate in the final implementation (as there always is in design), but I love the outside box thinking to classify languages, adapt automatically, and to show progress throughout composition, regardless of the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great writeup from Josh Wilburne of Twitter detailing the challenges of designing for the 140 character limit across the world. Two major aspects that stand out: Automatic density-based adjustments With this in mind, we designed a system that defines two types of written languages, dense and non-dense, and expands the character limit for non-dense languages. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/how-twitter-solved-the-character-problem-for-different-languages\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/willvaughan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}