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Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The short of it:
He made an offhand comment about buying twitter as a sort of "joke" but was then forced to go through with it thanks to the legal ramifications of said joke.
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