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The Twitter I Love Doesn’t Exist Anymore

The Twitter I Love Doesn’t Exist Anymore

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Virginia Heffernan
Apr 03, 2023
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This is a sentimental story about Twitter, a little Twitterbilly elegy. I spilled tears, heavy Patsy Cline tears, for the platform for the first time a few weeks ago, during a walk with Amanda Guinzburg, a writer and photographer I’d long followed on Twitter for her excellent tweets about American politics and photos of libidinous flowers.

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