Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox

  • As far as I can tell, the upshot after scoring a million tweets is that the only one with all 26 letters was just

    "?????????????????????the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog??????????????????"

    This is considerably less interesting than I hoped it would be. (And a little surprising! That's a lot of data.)

  • Isn't it a bit silly to throw away every single @<user> tweet? Imagine I'm having a twitter conversation with my friends about who can make the best pangram and this data is ignored just because we're tweeting @ each other?

    I'm guessing that the majority of tweets will reference a person. How about just stripping that @word from the tweet?

  • At first I thaught "Searching Twitter for a better pangram" was the pangram.

    I'm stupid.

  • Not easy to remember, but I recall this phrase appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records for shortest pangram: "Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck."

    More here: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet.htm

  • Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.