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{{w|Twitter}} is a short message social network and communication service. At the time this comic was published, all messages (known as tweets) on the service needed to be under 140 characters. Until August 2015 even private messages had that restriction. Twitter is frequently used by well-known comedians as a place to make interesting jokes and observations. It should be noted that the limit is now 280 characters. | {{w|Twitter}} is a short message social network and communication service. At the time this comic was published, all messages (known as tweets) on the service needed to be under 140 characters. Until August 2015 even private messages had that restriction. Twitter is frequently used by well-known comedians as a place to make interesting jokes and observations. It should be noted that the limit is now 280 characters. | ||
− | All the words spoken by [[Megan]], from "Yeah" to "alphabetization", are in reverse alphabetical order. | + | All the words spoken by [[Megan]], from "Yeah" to "alphabetization", are in reverse alphabetical order. It both answers [[Cueball]]'s question and exemplifies with an ingenious {{w|self-reference}}, while being short enough (133 characters) to be a valid tweet — hence the "whoa." |
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− | + | The title text, "title-text similarly alphabetized", is also backwards-alphabetized and self-referential. [[Title text]] is normally not written with a hyphen, but the text would still fulfill the criteria even if the hyphen had been left out. | |
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− | The title text, "title-text similarly alphabetized", is also backwards-alphabetized and self-referential. | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== |