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Re: I'm done with Twitter

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Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
> Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> It looked like this twiter shit was founded in 2006. I'm a late phone 
>> adopter and I know for a fact even an old phone from then could do group 
>> texting with no problem and that unlimited (or just a huge number of them) 
>> wasn't expensive or hard to get. If twiter was from 1996, some of this 
>> might make sense. Even my 1997 phone could receive text messages. You 
>> could not reply, and could not see where they came from, but they did show 
>> up, many years after I got the phone.
>>
>> Not trying to call you a liar, but like how a TIF district works, it just 
>> never makes sense.
> 
> it wasn't just group texting, you could subscribe to someone and you'd get an
> SMS for anything they sent out.

who the hell did that though? Receive nonstop text messages from nonsense 
content on a website? And according to bje, that was a time before 
unlimited texting anyways.

None of it adds up.

>> I was waiting for some magic updae to allow FM radio on the galaxy s5, but 
>> it never seeme to happen. Can't say that I really miss the radio, unless 
>> it's the dusties AM station.
> 
> goog sez the Sprint S5 works, but the other US ones don't.

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I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-04 12:11 -0700
  Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-04 19:16 -0500
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-05 15:17 +0000
    Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-05 11:17 -0700
      Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-05 20:53 -0500
        Re: I'm done with Twitter Michele <eatshitanddie@spammers.com> - 2016-07-05 22:34 -0500
          Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-06 15:46 +0000
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:35 -0700
        Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 09:38 -0700
          Re: I'm done with Twitter smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-07-06 19:23 -0500
            Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-06 22:11 -0700
              Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-07 15:28 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-07 12:05 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-08 15:38 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-07-08 20:36 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-09 02:19 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-09 11:35 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-07-09 18:50 -0700
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-10 04:36 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-07-10 11:20 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter core <core@pt40.net> - 2016-07-10 11:11 -0500
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-11 00:55 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-07-11 19:05 +0000
                Re: I'm done with Twitter Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-07-12 14:31 +0000

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