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2nd January 2009 - Link Blog

Antipatterns for sale. Twply collected over 800 Twitter usernames and passwords (OAuth can’t arrive soon enough) and was promptly auctioned off on SitePoint to the highest bidder.

Posted 2nd January 2009 at 10:48 am

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