This is the full version of the Each Tweet Counts project. http://eachtweetcounts.com/ It requires the tweepy library. https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy/ And, that you get your own access tokens. https://dev.twitter.com Unicode information. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters ::WIKI:: Single letters that cannot be tweeted: D, F, G, L, M, S, W (there may be others) Two character combinations: \n Single letter commands: @username message #topic D username message (direct message) M username message (private message) F username (follow) L username (leave, stop following) G username (get most recent tweet) SMS Commands: http://support.twitter.com/articles/14020-twitter-sms-commands Other discoveries: 1. Any tweet with spaces preceding characters will have spaces stripped. 2. Any duplicate tweet (might need to be consecutive) will not be tweeted. Let me know what you find.