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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by komali2 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:52PM (#12672722)
What do you think would happen if Twitter didn't exist? You'd probably just email them or something.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:30PM (#12673590)
huh? If cell phones didn't exist, you would make an arrangement to go meet someone at a certain time and place, and if you both didn't show up, OH WELL. "stood up".

That doesn't diminish from the value and buy-in of cell phones and is a bizarre argument to make regarding the value, if any, of twitter.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by sanderjd on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:20AM (#12675207)
I don't really get this analogy. Cell phones are a qualitative improvement in that situation. How is sending a DM an improvement over sending an email?
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by logicallee on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:39AM (#12675654)
I guarantee you that every single person sending and receiving DM's has an email address, so you'll have to ask them.
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