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by tacos 3741 days ago
That's my point. Ten years ago 75 people in Red West were so heads down putting together a MySpace competitor and an online service to promote musicians that they didn't have time even to try the competing site they were knocking off, poorly.

Five years ago Microsoft launched a variety of awful code forge sites that couldn't be more tone deaf to what was going on with code sharing online.

Now we have forty people who are so heads-down on an AI chat-bot that apparently they have no idea how Twitter works. But hey, sure sounds neat, let 'er rip!

Have these people really not had a chance to use Twitter recently? Are they completely oblivious to the tone shift there particularly during the past six months, even more so now during the US political elections?

This was an obvious recipe for disaster that any 22 year old working at Starbucks could have predicted.