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people retweet stuff in an equally dumb manner . thats how twitter started


That's why you unfollow such people.


Twitter started in 2006, they didn't add the retweet functionality until 2009.


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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