Hello, How this can be possible? I need your helps. thanks.

Details:

i’m sharing a tweet with the link via API call so its returns with a 285 characters.

Text is:
An Instagram takeover is a great tool to liven your business’s Instagram account. Here are the 5 steps to host an Instagram takeover: :one: Set goal :two: Find the right guest host :three: Prepare a brief :four: Promote your upcoming Instagram takeover :five: Save and analyze
Characters count: 262 because it contains emoji which counts as 2.

262 + 23 = 285
your rules shouldn’t have let this tweet to be shared.

Counting characters with links / emojis works like this Counting characters | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

We refer to whether a glyph counts as one or more characters as its weight. The exact definition of which characters have weights greater than one character is found in the configuration file for the twitter-text Tweet parsing library.

While the text length is 285 in https://twitter.com/smorientation/status/1348643027280146432 it’s allowed because the emojis count as 1 character using the Twitter implementation, so this is exactly 280:

An Instagram takeover is a great tool to liven your business’s Instagram account. Here are the 5 steps to host an Instagram takeover: 1️⃣ Set goal 2️⃣ Find the right guest host 3️⃣ Prepare a brief 4️⃣ Promote your upcoming Instagram takeover 5️⃣ Save and analyz https://t.co/sgkJXj092h

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