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The Hawks winning streak is too long for Twitter

It should say HaWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWks, but alas, Twitter would only allow HaWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWks.

The Hawks’ Twitter account -- an account that’s been praised here before -- has been having fun with their ultra-long win-streak: they’d been adjusting their Twitter accounts’ name with a string of W’s where the “w” in “Hawks” should be. But with their 17th-straight win Wednesday night over the Nets, their hypothetical name reached 21 letters, and Twitter only contains room for 20. So they improvised:

Cloooooose, but not quite. Gotta bump down that H in the avi to get it to line up right.

It looks worse on their profile page:

After earlier games, the team had released Vines of their social media staff meticulously updating the Twitter name:

But with that not an option, they just made T-Pain into a chipmunk:

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