Get to know your peeps prior to the conference and make those chats over the
buffet (in the hall, at the bar) more fun!
http://twitter.com/Tori/ixd10-attendees
This list was made from the Interaction10 crowdvine site. If I've missed you
send me a message @tori
I'll continue to update it
For you many IxDA twitterati, I've compiled a list of all the
speakers at Interaction'10 who are on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/kaleemux/ixd10-speaker-interaction
Now you can sta-- um... get to know them virtually before you meet
them in Savannah next February.
-K
I wonder if the P2 Wordpress theme could be hacked to do something
similar http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2 I should also bust out
my neglected PHP skills. It's been a while!
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http://cotweet.com also allows the management of multiple twitter
accounts as does http://brizzly.com/. I use all three but for
managing multiple accounts (in my case on behalf of clients) I find
hootsuite to be the easiest.
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I appreciate the suggestions.
Unfortunately, my challenge is not with finding a Twitter client to manage
multiple users, it's with aggregating the information in a way that I can
integrate with a blog.
Last night, I busted out my PHP skills and came up with a couple concepts.
The first is a
I'm designing a Twitter visualization for a blog with multiple contributors.
Each blog contributor also publishes on Twitter, and we need an interface
that integrates:
* each blogger's tweets
* responses to those tweets
* tweets with hash-tag references to the blog
I'd like to know if there are
Is this the one you are asking? -http://hootsuite.com/. It allows blogging
with multiple contributors.Hope this helps you.
Best,
.Kr
http://flashactions.com
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Jonathan Abbett jonat...@abbett.orgwrote:
I'm designing a Twitter visualization for a blog with
Twitter is fantastic if you are moving to a new country! I'm moving
to New Zealand 11/12/08 and it's been invaluable connecting with my
fellow web designers and interaction designers.
I've met two recruiters there as well, one of which has gotten me to
the 2nd interview at a company that has a
There are many reasons to twitter. I made mine clear some while ago in this
tumblr posting:
Why twitter is such a great
success...http://jansegers.tumblr.com/post/32407612/why-twitter-is-such-a-great-successhttp://jansegers.tumblr.com/post/32407612/why-twitter-is-such-a-great-success
Melissa,
I use Twitter primarily for:
Sharing - I'll post links of what I find is interesting and give some commentary
Learning - It's interesting to find out what others are sharing and
talking about
In order to keep the signal to noise ratio down, I choose to follow
people who post content,
I use Twitter to stalk my friends.
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On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Benjamin Ho wrote:
I use Twitter to stalk my friends.
I use twitter to keep people from guessing my real intentions.
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Funny -- I guess there's no way we'll ever know the user's intentions
on social media then!
On Oct 31, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Jared Spool wrote:
On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Benjamin Ho wrote:
I use Twitter to stalk my friends.
I use twitter to keep people from guessing my real intentions.
You might enjoy this: an example of Tweet-noir -
http://stilgherrian.com/sydney/gonzo-twitter-1-saturday-evening-in-newtown/
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Wicked sense of wordplay? Ukelele?
I guess Bill DeRouchey!
Welcome
The Phone Book project in the UK (http://www.the-phone-book.com) do a
great project on short text writing. The winner one year was titled
Everything I Had to Say the Day You Died. The rest of story was
On 27 Oct 2008, at 20:41, Andreas Ringdal wrote:
Ernest Hemingway was once
2 thoughts on the 140char count:
1. It has actually improved my writing and worsened my spelling.
2. Ya know, you can write across multiple tweets.
Cindy, great story. Ambient Intimacy is a great way of shoring up
long distance relationships for sure.
I guess Billy D or Rusty U.
-- dave
. .
I have multiple uses for Twitter. Depending on the context (there's
that word again) one or several of those uses come into play at a
given time.
Stay in touch with friends and colleagues distributed around the
world: Will, Dan and Dave have all discussed ambient intimacy. The
casual contact and
Started using Twitter a couple of weeks ago. For example it is nice to
see what people are doing in between their blog posts. Other than that
when given the chance of getting to know some very interesting people
is always something you at least try.
My twitter: www.twitter.com/aapjerockdt
Grtz,
Cindy,
I'd love your feedback on the msg i posted to twitter Oct 24 --
because you clearly read tweets with attention, and with a sense of
narrative -- and the person you described is interesting in what they
reveal -- my own posts are not nearly as content rich -- in fact are
often
Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words.
The result: For sale: baby shoes, never used.
Perhaps it is time for the Twitter novel?
andreas
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Twitter reminds me a great deal of MOOs in the early days of the
interweb, except without the high-school kids running around barfing
on everyone.
Blogs and personal websites are much like the personal spaces people
used to build for themselves within MOOs too. The open chat is very
much
Other people are still the most interesting content period.
--
Martin Polley
Technical writer, interaction designer
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Twitter: martinpolley
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Thanks for the post. This whole Twitter thread has certainly got me
thinking on viewing Twitter as a tool for doing user research among a
particular type of research participants, i.e. ones who are comfortable with
SMS and IM either on the mobile or PC platform. I doubt if Twitter itself
on its
Although some have argued that Twitter may be an effective tool for user
research, I think anyone who thinks it can be the *only* tool is delusional.
It can, at best, provide some data for user research, but I would be
negligent to argue that you could use that and some other similar tools to
Twitter is a fantastic tool for user research. It can be used to
advantage in many cases for both enabling and conducting user
research.
Here's an interesting post:
http://dinamehta.com/blog/2008/02/01/twitter-for-ethnography/
I have begun using Twitter recently. Drop by sometime @
Melissa, people often ask me why and how I use Twitter, so I wrote
this blog post to help explain: How Twitter has changed my life
http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2008/07/how-twitter-has-changed-my-life/
I hope you find it useful. The best way to understand the value that
Twitter can provide is to
@ William Brail: Twitter is fun when your friends are using it. I was on
Twitter for about a year before my colleagues and friends got in, and it's
gotten a lot more fun after that. I like having a balance of colleagues,
friends and IXDA'ers on my list.
@Niklas: lots of languages are spoken on
To me, Twitter is like sitting down at a big table full of other IxD types
and a few regular friends, doing the work we need to do, and chatting all
the while.
On 10/22/08, Melissa Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interested in finding out who's using Twitter and what for –
(Personal updates?
Love that Fred! As the lone IxD'er where I work it's nice to know
others like me are out there.
I've been following more than chatting but I'm working on balancing that out.
- Carrie
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Fred Beecher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me, Twitter is like sitting down at a
Apropo Twitter, I've been studying it and other lifestreaming apps
(swurl, friendfeed, tumblr, dipity, soup, etc) recently and I'm really
curious about how people use it over time.
Of all the social media apps out there, twitter more than most seems
to have hit a certain nerve. A lot of
To follow up on Christian's comment about twitter's open
architecture...here's a post that covers nearly every twitter tool out
there, and the multitude of ways folks are using it. (I came upon the link
via Twitter, naturally. )
RT @KathySierra
@Armano the 1 thing that has surprised me most about Twitter? The sum
really IS greater than the parts. (impossible to perceive w/o trying)
--
Martin Polley
Technical writer, interaction designer
+972 52 3864280
Twitter: martinpolley
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Isn't Twitter (currently) very much about following fellow _English
speaking_ tweeters?
In Sweden, and to my knowledge Europe (correct me if I'm wrong),
twitter hasn't taken of(on?) at all. For various reasons, but a big
one I guess being language. Having my 'local' friends following my
English
Wonderful discussion here!
I want to follow all of you guys on... mine is @jorgemarquez I use to write
in spanish and english depending on the comment.
I became fan of Twitter since I discovered the great networking potential
behind this tool.
Here a list for what I'm using Twitter:
1.-
I think twitter leverages many of the killer aspects of blogging
tweets have a ubiquitous rather than a localized feel as I follow the
micro-blog updates of career heroes as well as my coworkers and
friends. maybe u have to be a birder to appreciate it!
peep,
lo
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:38
I have also had a lot of fun on Twitter, as well as sharing relevant
UX / IA / IxD and Web Strategy Info, and learning from all the
incredibly talented folks that share on Twitter. You have to learn
how to be more selective in what you are looking for, or you will
have to slog through mundane
there's a wall around us
we are heady, we are groundless
we burn our friends kill their names
build insecure petty fames
tattoo things that we believe
skulls bones hearts in half-sleeves
That stanza came to mind, especially the line about insecure and petty fames
- which was more an
Niklas,
I hear this argument a lot about many social networks that are
started in the US or UK, but I've noticed a trend.
Brazilians Portuguese just don't give a sh*t. ;-)
Nor do Israelis, Japanese and many other non-Europeans and well
Europeans. ;-)
Open up Twittervision and not only will you
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this.
Not everything is designed to meet a need.
I just had a conversation like this with some engineering students
whom I am teaching interactive media. My response was what's the
point of text messaging when you can just call
Text messaging is task-based and less intrusive. You text me, I'll text you
back when I can. Not as cumbersome as email, not as annoying as answering
the phone.
I wouldn't text someone in an emergency though.
--
Mario Bourque
Web: www.mariobourque.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twitter:
Not to get too philosophical, but I have been thinking a lot about
'needs' lately. I never really 'needed' a mobile phone or an ipod, but
once I had them I realized great utility and benefit from both.
Also... the need in this case is only partially a product or
technology thing, but weighted more
Just in case it sounded like I couldn't see the point of text
messaging, I meant that question as a rhetorical one, or at least one
to get him thinking about needs/function/purpose and design. Plenty of
people never thought computers would be useful. Or a phone with a
touchscreen instead
I knew you did!
Computers are not useful; they cause me all sorts of grief!
We see these things as being useful because they complement our own lives in
some way. Those that don't understand, and there are a lot of them, can't
see the value.
A lot of companies are going through this
I'm an on/off twitter.com user.. however.. a colleague in our 35
strong UX team hand-rolled a Twitter 'Clone' for internal use.
Essentially its a hacked WP blog open to the team to make short
status question posts.
With the team spread across 4 buildings and 80 product sets its
proving
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow. If only my travels made *me* feel warm inside.
@jmspool
Try the equator somewhere, or Arizona
@lorenbaxter
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Jared Spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow. If only my travels made *me* feel
Professionals in our field would also do well to study Twitter's meta-UI:
its open architecture that facilitates so many innovative I/O add-ons.
Also, it's an experience that each user can fine tune to their own benefit.
This is something that can make the benefits hard to discern from the
Interested in finding out who’s using Twitter and what for –
(Personal updates? Reinforcing/building
communities? Work related announcements?) and if anyone has found novel,
possibly unintended, uses for the product.
i mostly follow close friends, strangers local to me, other ux'rs,
accessibility enforcers, ixda'rs, and the like. it makes me feel
warm inside to follow jared spool's travels, and wil wheaton's
endeavors.
since i started, i've discovered lots of online resources, and a
couple new t-shirt shops.
I think there was another thread about this recently—you might check the
IxDA archives for everyone's IDs.
I'm @rhjr.
Interested in finding out who's using Twitter and what for –
Adding a personal side to all the business. Most of my followers are people
who have read the books, seen me speak,
Twitter is an amazing tool... if used correctly.
I've been able to:
1.) Connect with my own user community
2.) Connect with people in other related comminuties
3.) Create new personal and professional relationships
4.) Save money
5.) Become a more efficient communicator
6.) Get feedback
I've
I let anyone (friends/ux community, co-workers/clients) follow me (and i
follow them), on twitter - and I have chosen to be real/authentic - so
clients don't get some sanitized corporate-speak version of the Will they
hired. So far - and there is a community of us, mostly from ixda - that talk
Word - and @mariobourque has introduced me to a number of cool people,
@whitneyhess blogs entire conferences for those that can't go, the list goes
on and on.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Mario Bourque [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Twitter is an amazing tool... if used correctly.
I've been able
Twitter has enabled me to have the kind of casual conversation with
people that you usually don't get on the internet... Email (especially
this list) can be overwhelming.. and not every topic is worth a whole
email. Twitter is more like all of us standing around in a room
talking over each other.
IxDA has 2 accounts right now (that I've seen).
@interaction09 for the upcoming conference and @ixda which is for
anyone.
The cool thing about @ixda is that it is set up as a grouptweet and
so if you direct message d ixda [message] it goes to all the
followers. Pretty neat!
I'm at @daveixd
For
I cannot for the life of me see the value in Twitter. I wish someone
would explain it to me. Looks like a bunch of mindless IMs whenever I
see it. It seems like IRC only no rooms and everyone is crazy.
Will
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The way i see it, it is the intermediate of IRC IM.
It has the advantages of individual asynchronous talking that IM
brings, but can also lead to real-time conversation to a group that
IRC brings.
It is like a train I can jump on and off of. It is referencable. i.e.
I can mark a tweet as a
the medium is the message - twitter is different. IM is one2one,
synchronous. twitter is many2matter, asynchronous, with no comitment, you
can jump in or out at will, IM requires you to actually be there/then. Email
conversations are more formal, although asynchronous, but also not condusive
to
Check out Leisa Reichelt's blog post on Ambient Intimacy [1]. There are
people who I only see once a year (at conferences), but I'd like to get to
know them better. There are people who live in the same town as I do, but we
don't get to see each other all that often.
By following them on Twitter,
Like others, I enjoy Twitter most for the many tiny updates from friends
throughout the day.
Recently during the Design Engaged conference, we used it for group
coordination and last-minute updates; it was extremely useful.
Most interesting to me is how people are using it to give lightweight
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Check out Leisa Reichelt's blog post on Ambient Intimacy [1]. There are
people who I only see once a year (at conferences), but I'd like to get to
know them better. There are people who live in the same town as I do, but we
don't get to see each other all that often
I agree that Twitter has little real value besides replicating in web form
what people have already done over IM.
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this. What's the
killer app here that's new?
Welcome to the
Oh - I forgot - I know of at least 3 people that got IxD/UX gigs via
twitter. I know one guy that got a speaking engagement through twitter. I
haven't heard of anyone getting married through twitter yet - but @K
announced his successful engagement over twitter. @russu announced his
forbidden love
I found it very useful recently following @armano and @whitneyhess as
they posted bits pieces from the IDEA and UI13 conferences that I
wasn't able to attend.
- Carrie
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I think it definitely is a personal choice.
If I went to a party, I would rather have one night-long deep conversation
with 1 person than 50 short conversations with many people. Sure I spend a
lot of time on the web, but I also feel that the web has lessened
interaction between people on a
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Tahsin Shamma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it definitely is a personal choice.
If I went to a party, I would rather have one night-long deep conversation
with 1 person than 50 short conversations with many people. Sure I spend a
lot of time on the web,
Melissa,
You'll find me @docbaty - and my only recommendation would be to try twitter
(if you haven't already) and see what *you* get out of it, since it seems to
be different for everybody.
But I thoroughly enjoy the fact that I can chat/banter/debate with fellow
practitioners like Russ Unger,
, October 22, 2008 2:03:18 PM
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Melissa,
You'll find me @docbaty - and my only recommendation would be to try twitter
(if you haven't already) and see what *you* get out of it, since it seems to be
different for everybody.
But I thoroughly enjoy the fact that I can
Since i've been called out regarding threesomes, I'll instantiate one here
and share the sentiment i expressed in my latest tweet:
Ode to the tweethaters: someone must sit behind the wave and declare the
idea of tide unproven, their skepticism of fluidity unchanged.
That came to mind after
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Melissa,
You'll find me @docbaty - and my only recommendation would be to try
twitter (if you haven't already) and see what *you
Wow, that's a pretty distinguished list (except for me that is). Thanks for
including me. I enjoy those conversations too.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Steve Baty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I thoroughly enjoy the fact that I can chat/banter/debate with fellow
practitioners like Russ
OH! and did people see what Current.tv did w/ Twitter during the
debates. While I know that some have seen IM over MTv the way that I
could reply to people was very dfiferent than the IM/MTv space and it
all being done in a very open way was empowering. Why? B/c I knew that
500 people saw it
Add your twitter to your sig - gain more followers, become rockstar, get
better job, move to Beverly Hills, get a healthy XXX addiction, check into
rehab, recover, go on twitter intervention lecture circuit.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Loren Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I'm still
Will, would you please tweet that so i can favorite it?
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Add your twitter to your sig - gain more followers, become rockstar, get
better job, move to Beverly Hills, get a healthy XXX addiction, check into
rehab, recover, go on
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this.
Not everything is designed to meet a need.
-r-
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I haven't heard of anyone getting married through twitter yet - but @K
announced his successful engagement over twitter.
@garazi actually asked @stefsull to marry him over Twitter. It even made the
tech news on several big sites.
-r-
My issue with twitter is that discussions are have a very, very short
lifespan (things get buried fast).
Perhaps that's why I like plurk (www.plurk.com) a little better, it presents
status messages in a timeline that's easier to browse.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Will Evans [EMAIL
rather, not every need is evenly distributed.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am also very skeptical of the need for something like this.
Not everything is designed to meet a need.
-r-
I can see how various elements of twitter can be useful. I see how it
changes the dynamics of various aspect.
However, if we are going to bring up McLuhan, Will, let's take a
real analysis of the medium.
The 140 character limit means you can't say much, which means the
value of the tweet is in
all these (tweetes) gone - like tears in rain. Time to die - blade
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all these (tweetes) gone
Will B., good points, but I think you're focusing the criticism solely on
Twitter as a medium for communicating thoughts and ideas. What about
Twitter as a medium for connecting to other people and building
relationships? I've been able, and in fact encouraged, to have personal
conversations
regnard,
I was also a big plurk advocate when it first came out. My issue w/
plurk is that it is the Betamax of Twitter. It just doesn't have the
critical mass to keep me there and so now it is just annoying.
I wonder if someone using the API of twitter can replicate the GUI.
Interesting
Twitter's beauty is in it's simplicity. Sure, it may reinforce a whole bunch
of crap; but I can tweet something and follow up via email, phone, or in
person. If you throw all your fish in one bucket, it's not all that
effective. Once you build relationships, those 140 character tweets are bits
of
Regnard Raquedan wrote:
My issue with twitter is that discussions
I don't think I'd ever try having a dicussion over twitter.
IMHO, twitter was designed for @jennyholzer and the rest of us are just
tagging along for the ride.
--
J. Eric jet Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction
What makes Twitter work? . . . What are people doing on it that adds value
to their life?
Two things. It allows people to place themselves at the center of the
information stream (or at least gives them the perception that they're at
the center). And it enables them to do so in the most
agency in Portland, OR
called ISITE Design, and I've just joined IxDA.)
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On 20/8/08 11:48 AM, David
David Malouf wrote:
What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short?
Critical mass. Seriously, I tried the other ones but not enough of my
friends were there to keep me there. Sames goes for LiveJournal -- I
don't use it because of the feature set, but because it has critical
Maybe this thread can be called, Ok, who broke down and gone
Twittering? =]
I finally went on as well and first found it to be useless. But then
I saw all the different messages going on that made me curious. Then
I tried following some people, but they had updates almost every
hour! So that
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Valeska O'Leary
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I also started to enjoy the camaraderie of
like minded professionals commenting on current affairs and experiences.
Furthermore I enjoyed the responses to my own updates or tweets and
networking opportunities
So why does it work? What makes Twitter work? I'm not interested in
what makes it fail. I'm interested in analyzing the positives.
What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short?
What are the different positive practices, flows, styles of use that
people have recognized?
What are
for me, the SMS alerts were the killer aspect... they really brought
out the realtime interaction for me.
(and now they've turned em off for us here in .au I'm not sure how
useful it'll be to me)
my fave scenario where Twitter has worked was while I was in NYC
using it to bridge US SMS carriers,
On 20/8/08 6:54 AM, Benjamin Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That, I would say is the only downfall of Twitter - noise. I prefer
the once-a-day update, maybe even two, but not every hour! Keeping
up with people can seem more like a task than pure enjoyment.
curious to know what you means of
On 20/8/08 11:48 AM, David Malouf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why does it work? What makes Twitter work? I'm not interested in
what makes it fail. I'm interested in analyzing the positives.
What makes twitter work where other micro-blogs fall short?
I find I'm able to micro-post a plea to
Hi Everybody.
So, I finally broke down and am starting to get into twitter.. But
there is still one big problem in my mind, sort of usability issue.
Here's the situation:
- I'm following user123
- user123 is not following me
- i post a link to an article that user123 would be very interested
I see Twitter as more of a broadcast medium than a chat client, but of
course it could be both.
Think of it as a blog with smaller updates. For instance, I use it for
Cashboard as a system status update. I also use it to alert customers
to development efforts as they happen.
seth b wrote:
Think of it as a blog with smaller updates.
Many of the people I know who use twitter will ignore it for hours at a
time during the day and *not* come back and play catchup.
These days, if I want a specific person to know something, I stick to
the email.
--
jet / KG6ZVQ
It depends on what you want to use it for.
For broadcasting hey this might be interesting bits of information to your
friends, it works well.
Just like shouting across a room to a friend, sending a message to one
friend and letting everyone in your gang hear what you're saying adds a
dimension
HI Matt,
@daveixd here. I think you just need to take your time w/ it. I
can't believe who is following me sometimes. Like why the heck? And
then there are the peeps whom I'm pissed that don't follow me
(they have their accts locked up) b/c I'm constantly getting 1/2 of
their conversations b/c I
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