Monkey patch for Rubytter

gistfile1.rb

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

class Rubytter
  alias update__without_strict140 update

  def update(status, params = {})
    if (characters = status.split(//u)).size > 140
      status = characters[0, 140].join
    end
    update__without_strict140(status, params)
  end
end