"text characters"

Question

how do you say "text characters"? (as in twitter

Welcome to the forum. Please use proper capitalization in your posts. - rac1, Feb 3, 2014

Answer 1

text characters / simbolos / caracteres especiales

Fun facts about text characters:

It takes 18 characters to type in the subject of a thread asking how to translate 'text characters'.

It takes 48 characters to type in the actual question.

It takes 972 characters to write out an interesting answer to a question on text characters.

It takes 15 characters to type the term into the SD translator located at the top of the page, which is also, coincidentally, the amount of characters in the term 'text characters'. That's 1023 characters less than using the forum.

Save time. Save characters. Use the SD translator and Google Español.

Figures credited to C&P Char Counter.

Sorry if my post carries the wrong tone. I don't want to drive you away from this forum. I just want to say that you should only come here when you have a problem that requires genuine human input. Good luck! - Helado_eclectico, Feb 3, 2014

I did use the translator first, as well as many other sites. It keeps giving me "caracteres de texto" which didn't look correct to me. I am trying ot create a Twitter-like activity for my students and want to limit the characters they use. - lorett415, Feb 3, 2014

Ah, I see. If you had mentioned that you were unsatisfied with the machine translator, I would not have been so quick to judge you as just another lazy person. Hope there are no hard feelings :) - Helado_eclectico, Feb 3, 2014

So, in fact, are you sure that your translation is what would be appropriate for a Twitter type limit of characters? - lorett415, Feb 3, 2014

Answer 2

I see "caracteres" being used.

Twitter tiene un límite de 140 caracteres.

Twitter has a 140-character limit.

Si creas tu propio hashtag, que sea breve. Twitter tiene un límite de 140 caracteres por tweet, incluyendo los hashtags. Un hashtag largo, como "# mimusicafavoritasiempre", toma muchos de los 140 caracteres, sé práctico.

http://www.ehowenespanol.com/hashtags-como_363963/

did you see that on a Spanish twitter account? - lorett415, Feb 3, 2014