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I don’t understand the HB obsession with not creating accounts or reading Twitter. I haven’t logged into Twitter in years I stay logged in. Also reading Twitter is trivial people have consumed countless billions of tweets. Yet for some reason programmers on HN struggle with it.


It lets them track you across sites that use their iframes.


Scary. Patagonia might show me an ad when i read the WSJ since i follow their twitter account.


Where I go on the Internet outside of Twitter dot com is none of their business.


It’s how sites with billions in expenses are run without having to charge directly. I never click on ads so google and Twitter are free for me.


Twitter destroyed in myopic greed what was once a sensible service that shared in our vision of an open web. The “struggle” you refer to is protest.


I am just as confused as to how literally multiple people have figured out how to use and navigate Twitter. I have probably failed at many other things in my life too though. Maybe it's me.




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