I wrote,
> The VS possibility would double the character count of any strings
> including them.
A kind list member has pointed out privately that the above is
mistaken. Twitter character counts aren't actually character counts.
Each math-alpha counts as two characters as do the VS characters. So a
string with VS characters interspersed would actually be triple rather
than double.
(I've also been advised that a lot of the math-alpha on Twitter involves
fraktur, script, and double struck characters. As was pointed out to
me, that practice would probably continue even if Twitter enabled italic
and bold styling as a feature. Again, I do not personally know how
widespread the practice is.)
