750 Tweets

So this was fun. While spending a rather hungover Sunday afternoon following Silicon Christmas, immobile on the couch and learning about Angular.js, I happened to tweet the following:

I've committed to writing 750 words every day on http://t.co/OeysxkHs1g. Mind you, my upcoming 23hr flight to .au is going to hurt my streak

— Trish Khoo (@hogfish) December 15, 2013

I received this reply:

@hogfish How many tweets is that?

— James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) December 15, 2013

I spent almost 750 words forming a semi-coherent answer, until I gave up and James gave me the answer:

@hogfish It's about 50 tweets.

— James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) December 15, 2013

To which I of course responded:

@jamesmarcusbach Can you explain that in 750 words for me?

— Trish Khoo (@hogfish) December 15, 2013

A short time later, James sent me a prezi which looked like this:

Inside the “O” was written:

A tweet has 140 characters which divided by 6 for average word length plus space gives about 23 words per tweet. But that will lead to hard to read text. So if we say an average of 18 words per tweet you can comfortably reach your goal in 42 tweets.

I was a little slow.

@hogfish You asked me to explain it IN 750 words. That's what I did. My explaination is inside the "o".

— James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) December 15, 2013

@hogfish Did you mean you want me to use 750 words? I can do that, too.

— James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) December 15, 2013

Of course I did. An hour and a half later, I got this:

@hogfish Done. Exactly 750 words. See the prezi link again. http://t.co/YtPIjVIgPc

— James Marcus Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) December 15, 2013