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20th July 2007 - Link Blog

Friends, Followers, and Notifications. Twitter drops the confusing distinction between “friend” and “follow”—now it’s just “follow”. The less sites that demand I reduce friendship to a binary decision the better.

Posted 20th July 2007 at 10:59 am

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