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“everything i tweet is real”: The Age of Dril

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“fuck “jokes”. everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter...
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After months of negotiations, Elon Musk is finally the new owner of Twitter. The engineer of Tesla and SpaceX fame...
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