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Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

11 March 2020

Twitter used to be full of cat memes and had a culture of sharing. Now, I pay a company to make sure my presence on the site is extremely limited, writes Annalee Newitz
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Climate change is the new normal but we don’t seem to notice

2 March 2019

An analysis of Twitter data suggests weird weather is soon viewed as normal, which means we risk ignoring the effects of climate change, says Frances Moore

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