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Re:Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey ar... by jaywalk on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:16AM (#27368947)
No, that's not how it works. The only way it would start getting content is if users actually started tweeting from those remote locations, which seems unlikely.
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Re:Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey ar... by MauranKilom on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:49AM (#27369330)
...or someone figures out that appearing to tweet from that location suddenly puts their tweets in front of a lot of eyeballs.
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