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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 247 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (51 children)

I hope this takes off and people start using "tweet" and "twitter" again and it makes "x" completely irrelevant like his Hitler salute should have

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https://twitter.now/

vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up.. i think I'm okay

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Oh fuck this is embarrassing

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That site was blocked by spectrum when I tried it

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Probably a pre-emptive block to stop scam sites from using domain that are similar.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen that many em dashes ever. Not even in the most copy/paste AI slop wall of text. Holy moly.

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