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		gaius on Nov 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter Must Be Saved Only to the same extent that CB was the exclusive preserve of truckers. Look up "eternal September" if you want to understand the demographic of Usenet...

yoz-y on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

I know about the Eternal September, but I believe that the AOL users that "swarmed" the network were more technically apt than the generic Twitter user and also were way fewer.

The skill (and motivation) gap between using something like IRC and Twitter is massive.

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