The first tweet ‘just setting up my twittr’ was posted on the third Tuesday of March in 2006. The post is exactly 24 characters long. Just right, as each tweet must halt at a total of 160 characters, the same limit used by SMS (Short Messaging Service) at the time. It is language as generous crumbs. In 1985, the German engineer Friedhelm Hillebrand set these cuffs of SMS messaging. As the chairman of Global System for Mobile Communications, he and his team identified a character count of 160 as a functional limit to communication. A character further and the virtual syntax dismantles, the system breaks down. Hillebrand was responsible for testing this count. He poked at his typewriter, stringing likely sentences of his imagined user. Sentence one, question two, short fragment, long. His paper language was counted, and the conclusion clear – 160 characters is ‘perfectly sufficient’. Perfectly ‘sufficient’ is all that I want to say.