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BumRushDaShow

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3. That's because WAY WAY WAY before Muskrat bought it and destroyed it
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 08:35 AM
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many governmental entities created processes and policies for its use for transmitting information, which could be done quickly to both the media and the general populace.

Twitter first went online in 2006, 20 years ago. Muskrat bought it in 2022, just 4 years ago.

So there is a lot of legacy usage - notably happening in the mid-late 2010s with deployments that would be difficult to transition.

As a note - I have never nor will ever, have any social media accounts. If such a thing allows me to view the content on the web, then I will read it. But otherwise I don't use any of those apps.

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