Human Readable Text Compression
As a Web Service
TweetShrink, a web service from TRNSFR, uses a database of common instant / text messaging abbreviations to reduce the number of characters in a tweet. It's essentially a human-readable compression algorithm. For example, "Some text to shrink" becomes "sum text 2 shrnk" when passed through their API.
But it doesn't enforce Twitter's 140 [...]
