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Re:Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Soon... by Helianthus16 on Friday February 04, 2011 @09:29PM (#2182249)
The very existence of that "insult" amuses me. I miss the days when cooler than cool meant ice cold.

<meta>I posted this partially to experimentally examine the downvote clumping effect I've noticed on hn, where some reasonable responses to highly downvoted posts get downvoted by association.</meta>

Re:Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Soon... by dhotson on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @12:49AM (#2196533)
It's probably the "Don't feed the trolls" effect.. ;-)