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3/ So...while I’m still not trying to lead a boycott, if you’ve been considering dropping Facebook, I can attest that, at least for me, doing so has been painless. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ And there have been vastly fewer times than I had guessed - not many at all - when friends have felt I needed to see or know about posts on FB or Insta. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ It’s been a year since I quit @Facebook and @instagram and I haven’t missed them. At all. Not a single day has gone by when I wished I could browse the services or post there, even though I had large followings, especially on FB. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karaswisher @innoutburger Def. And I met Louie when he was a few days old! — PolitiTweet.org

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This tweet said “It’s a hard time of year for a lot of folks”. It didn’t say this is the peak time of year for suicides. So, even if you are somehow compelled to choose this moment to debate when suicides are most likely, it’s better to tweet this and maybe get someone help. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is important. 👇 Please read and post yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karaswisher @innoutburger You know I stan the Swisher boys, but Clara is quite something! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ani1u7 @allthingsd https://t.co/xwOqPwuE0w — PolitiTweet.org

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@Ani1u7 Yep. The first Star Wars movie coincided with the first mass market or home PCs. That’s why, at the 2007 @allthingsd conference, exactly 30 years later, we had both the famous Steve Jobs/Bill Gates interview AND an interview with George Lucas about digital tech in film. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi I think we had talks about absurd stuff like this in Office maybe 100 times. You always told me some % of people knew how to use these features. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi If *you* can’t figure out a Word feature, there’s something very wrong with the implementation! — PolitiTweet.org

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@opinion_joe @IamSuzanneCryer @flyLAXairport And, just to be provincial, Washington Dulles is a huge pain in the butt. It may have been designed in a pristine locale by a great architect, but now it’s a mess of ugly buildings. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IamSuzanneCryer @flyLAXairport I have spent time with you and spent time with LAX. You are a much, much better companion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rjonesy It still lags Google Maps in some ways, but you’re right that Apple Maps is now a real contender and that people don’t realize it. However, Apple’s progress has been uneven. It’s vastly better in the Bay Area than elsewhere, and in big cities in the U.S. generally. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IamSuzanneCryer @flyLAXairport LAX is indeed a horrendous airport and a black mark on LA, especially when compared to SFO. I hate using it. However, all three NYC airports may be even worse. — PolitiTweet.org

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@carlquintanilla @bxchen @nytimesbusiness Small correction in this @bxchen account of Steve Jobs showing me the first iPad. It’s true that it was just Steve and me at first. But, as I told Brian, @pschiller joined us after a bit. Brian told me his editors cut my account a lot for space, but I want to correct the record. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewsLitProject: On Dec. 29, @MeetThePress will dedicate its entire show to focus on #journalism and the weaponization of #disinformatio… — PolitiTweet.org

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@trentlmoore Thx! — PolitiTweet.org

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#GoPats. Good win. — PolitiTweet.org

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Man, I hate it when the broadcasters act like one team - even mine - has already won in close games when the other guys could still win. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rondel305 I honestly only say this about the Microsoft store because ours is small yet almost always seems very slow when I walk by. It wasn’t a knock on Microsoft. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mims Hi! — PolitiTweet.org

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I know many malls are dying. But the one nearest us, Westfield Montgomery in Maryland, always seems busy, and not just around Christmas. Even the Microsoft store was hopping today, and the Apple store was mobbed. The food court is jammed all day. And the ArcLight movie plex too. https://t.co/Jceglwldgg — PolitiTweet.org

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@dfallman @vladsavov @jhong We’ve done one special edition Ctrl-Walt-Delete since I retired. It was about the revival of the MacBook Air. I’m open to doing one-off episodes (and articles, like the one I just wrote) every so often when it makes sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nyseans @Doug24Seven I’d never go into such a shop. I hand-installed stuff in my first computers because I had to. After that, I expected my digital devices to just work, with the configurations I ordered and the apps and external accessories I bought. I want info appliances, not hobby projects. — PolitiTweet.org

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@charleypick Yes, the Amiga could have been a real contender. It’s a shame the company was so screwed up by that time. But, just to be clear, it came 8 years after the first mass market computers and one year after the Mac. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsilverman Happy to answer this. And I’ve always respected your views, even when they differ from mine. But I’m not inclined to engage in a debate on Twitter about this. Happy Holidays! — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsilverman What I mean by “mass market” is: fully assembled, able to to type and display text, usable by a non-engineer, & marketed to a general audience. These machines met those tests, even if in an imperfect way. I was completely untrained in CS or tech but I could use the Apple II. https://t.co/QvAMA2cQAY — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkDuplass @AppleTVPlus Great work! Congrats to you and all your colleagues. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeremyLaurenson @imlazar It was MY first computer, but it was years later than the very first mass market personal computers: the Apple II, the Radio Shack TRS-80, and the Commodore PET. — PolitiTweet.org