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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by riffic on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:50PM (#22539554)
>They have shown themselves to be a reliable partner

I hope you mean the opposite? Twitter has long been an unreliable partner in the developer ecosystem.

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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by bmelton on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:41PM (#22540051)
Not sure if edited, but your quote is slightly off. Should be

> They have shown not themselves to be a reliable partner

The "not" there feels like it's in an ambiguous spot, but at least gives a faint connotation of the author's intent, which reads as you'd like it to.

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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by rhizome on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:50PM (#22540133)
Even GP flailed it and put the 'not' in the wrong place. Should be "They have shown themselves not to be a reliable partner."
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by dorkwood on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:03PM (#22540285)
Also acceptable would be "they have shown themselves to be a reliable partner... not"
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by a1369209993 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:59PM (#22540839)
That could be interpreted as "they have not shown themselves to be a reliable partner" (ie we don't know) instead of the correct "they have shown themselves to not be a reliable partner" (ie we know they aren't), though.
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by buboard on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:09PM (#22540961)
yeah it should be not (themselves to be (a reliable partner))
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by Jaygles on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:04PM (#22539666)
Perhaps they mean Twitter is reliably unreliable?
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