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seydor
on Nov 6, 2022
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people retweet stuff in an equally dumb manner . thats how twitter started
phoronixrly
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That's why you unfollow such people.
aikendrum
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Twitter started in 2006, they didn't add the retweet functionality until 2009.
teh_klev
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Sure but folks quickly adopted "RT" as an informal means to re-tweet, then Twitter formalised the idea as a feature.
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