Someone posted the longest tweet ever with more than 30,000 characters

Just when Twitter expanding to 280 characters from its longtime 140-character limit seemed like an earth-shattering decision, a couple hackers blew the limit out of the water.

Over the weekend, a German-based account @Timrasett, along with the account @HackneyYT who was tagged on the tweet, hacked the not-so micro-blogging platform to post a tweet with a whopping 30,396-characters. 

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It's since been deleted, but the Internet Archive has preserved the lengthy tweet. Here's what part of the massive tweet looked like:

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