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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by watwut on Sunday May 21, 2017 @03:11PM (#14388683)
Why? Twitter is in no way essential.
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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by anigbrowl on Sunday May 21, 2017 @03:40PM (#14388844)
It's not, but it's clearly highly useful and is the incumbent in the short public messaging market.
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Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook by watwut on Sunday May 21, 2017 @04:57PM (#14389217)
Highly useful and is the incumbent should be criteria for something to become public utility like water?
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