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by kbr 3499 days ago
Well, I mainly made this after seeing people on Twitter tweet out code perfectly formatted and highlighted, but it's just a screenshot of their text editor.

So basically, the main use-case of Alter is that it lets you tweet code snippets that are a little over 140 characters that are formatted correctly.

It can also be used for more, such as "copy-protection", like you said above.