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Observation about my tweets - exactly 280 characters - means editing and sharper thoughts 🧠

Open marsrobertson opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

This is obvious once you know it.

Whenever my tweet is exactly 280 characters - it means I was polishing, finetuning, editing, ensuring it has exactly the amount to fit - maybe promote it more as I really put the effort in?

Time on editing box can be a good metric too, although easy to gamify, so it the exact 280 characters. But if you combine it with detecting keystroke patters = then the signal is relatively strong.

ChatGPT commentary for the initial prompt "extra security layer by typing patterns"

✅ Applications:

  • Login authentication: Your typing pattern on the username/password is compared to the stored profile.
  • Session monitoring: To detect intruders mid-session.
  • Fraud detection: In online banking or sensitive systems.

🧪 Example Tools / APIs:

  • TypingDNA – Developer-friendly API for keystroke-based authentication.
  • BehavioSec – Enterprise-grade behavioral biometrics.
  • Zighra, BioCatch – Used in fintech and identity verification.

🔧 DIY / Technical Setup

If you're a developer or builder:

  1. Capture typing data in JavaScript (e.g., keypress, keydown, keyup events).

  2. Extract features:

    • keydown to keyup duration
    • Time between consecutive keydowns
  3. Train a model (e.g., random forest, SVM, or neural net) on your patterns.

marsrobertson avatar Jul 15 '25 01:07 marsrobertson

This is the wrong place for that.

jibal avatar Sep 09 '25 18:09 jibal

This issue is about algorithm.

This is the the repo about algorithm.

This is the wrong place for that.

Reply:

This is a good place for that.

Someone could reverse engineer the trick and do 280 character tweets. I guesstimate that just the process of finetuning the tweet enhances it

marsrobertson avatar Dec 05 '25 23:12 marsrobertson