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Stephen Downes

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This will be all over the news, so I need not comment more than to say I I have frozen my Twitter account and will no longer be posting there. Notices here and here. I was worried about losing readers, but have realized that they won't be seeing my posts anyways; any content I'm posting is going to be drowned out in the sea of spam and 'promoted posts' the algorithm delivers. Just like on Facebook, which I also left years ago for the same reason. See also: Twitter now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark. See also: My twitter bots and apps have been defecated, by Alan Levine.

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