Following a slew of other major updates, Facebook announced in November that its users would be able to share status updates up to 63,206 characters long. That's a little harder to visualize than Twitter's 140-character limit.
So, we measured 10 other textual things to determine whether they made Facebook's character cut. Did you know you can fit an entire movie script in your Facebook status? Or that you can share multiple copies of the U.S. Constitution? Find out which iconic texts you can squeeze into Facebook's 63,206-character limit below.
If you're curious how Facebook arrived at this seemingly random number, Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin explained to ZDnet, "I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) – K … 64206 – 1000 = 63206." In other words, Baldwin calculated the number using the hexadecimal numeral system: The hexadecimal value of "FACE" is 64,206. Then, Baldwin subtracted "K," or "kilo-" (the prefix for 1,000), to arrive at 63,206.
How else can you reach 63,206 characters in your Facebook status update? Share your ideas below.
Hat tip to Amy Moczynski, who allowed us to riff on her original idea.
Disney's 1942 animated film Bambi can fit into your Facebook status 2.7 times, with a script totaling 23,331 characters.
Furthermore, you can share the script of the world's first animated film, Disney's Snow White, 1.9 times with your Facebook friends. Just don't eat any poison apples!
With 86,284 total characters, 73% of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors can fit into the theater fan's Facebook status.
At 62,270 characters total, the last three episodes of the Friends television show can fit into Facebook's character limit.
Ross + Rachel = 4ever.
The first 20 chapters in the Bible's Book of Genesis can fit into Facebook's 63,206 character limit. The character count totals 63,136 characters, including verse numbers.
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Disney's 1942 animated film Bambi can fit into your Facebook status 2.7 times, with a script totaling 23,331 characters.
Furthermore, you can share the script of the world's first animated film, Disney's Snow White, 1.9 times with your Facebook friends. Just don't eat any poison apples!
That's right, 451.5 full tweets at 140 characters each can fit into Facebook's character limit.
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Legendary rock band Journey's hit song Don't Stop Believin' can fit into your Facebook update 61 times, at 1,035 characters per song.
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With 86,284 total characters, 73% of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors can fit into the theater fan's Facebook status.
At 62,270 characters total, the last three episodes of the Friends television show can fit into Facebook's character limit.
Ross + Rachel = 4ever.
At 27,159 characters, the Constitution can fit into your patriotic Facebook status 2.32 times.
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Totaling 133,130 characters, half of Ernest Hemingway's famous novel The Old Man and the Sea can fit into Facebook's character limit -- or 47% of it, to be exact.
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On the other hand, don't get any ideas about publishing Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace in a series of status updates. At 3,201,080 characters, you'd need approximately 50 status updates to post the whole novel. Only 1.97% of the English version fits into one Facebook status update.
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