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28th October 2022 - Link Blog

Welcome to hell, Elon (via) If you only read one thing about the Elon acquisition of Twitter make it this, by Nilay Patel. Outstanding insights into what it actually takes to to run a commercial social media service.

Posted 28th October 2022 at 3:16 pm

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