I’ve included the text in the attached image in case you can’t view it on your device. As you can see, I have questions!
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![Hi there, it's me, Rich Tatum! And this is the alt description containing the very text of the image I have screen captured and attached. That’s pretty meta, isn’t it? I guess that’s probably the most useful use case I can imagine: actually making sure that meme and text images can be fully transcribed into the alt description. I have no idea why I am writing such a long descriptive alt text for this image, other than I am testing out the massive 1,000 character limit. And I have quite a few more characters to go! Because at the end of this sentence, including the period, I will have clocked only 628 characters in total. Wow! Questions: Is the alt searchable on Twitter? I’ve never noticed alt text on the mobile app. How can we view them? If there is inflammatory, dangerous, hurtful text in the alt text, will the algorithms flag it? Will we be able to report abusive alt texts? What kinds of abuses would be actionable? Will Google/Bing index the text? Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYlMqb8XkAEfh81.jpg)
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Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. ツ
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![A test of the Twitter search system in order to determine whether or not the alt description in images is searchable.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYlW1c5XgAE6v_D.jpg)