jquery tweets
HTML
<script src="http://github.com/kerberoS/jQuery-Tweets/raw/master/js/jquery.tweets.0.1.js"></script>
<form>
<textarea id="msg"></textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
JavaScript
$("form").submit(function(e){
var $textarea = $('#msg'),
maxWordLength = 20;
var value = $textarea.val().split(' '),
longWord = false;
for(var n = 0; n < value.length; n++) {
if(value[n].length >= maxWordLength)
longWord = true;
}
if(longWord) {
alert('Too long word');
return false;
}
});