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Erik Berlin

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10 months

Twitter was able to change the logo of their iOS app but not the name, since Apple requires app names to be at least 2 characters 😂

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I can’t believe this didn’t work

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2 years

Just another day, commuting to Twitter HQ in my Tesla vehicle: a great car made by a great man.

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@yalp122 He already has a company called SpaceX 😂

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I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know an engineer at Airbnb named Jeroen who’s using my listing (Room.first) as sample data for testing? If so, could you please ask him to find a different room?

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10 months

@JohnnyWinston It will not. Multi-byte characters are still characters.

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4 years

Ordering my new Mac Pro with wheels, for obvious reasons

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2 years

3yo asked why clothing gets darker when it gets wet, since water is clear. It’s a good question that had never occurred to me to ask before. Had to look up the answer: total internal reflection (light bouncing around inside the water layer instead of bouncing straight off).

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10 months

@BasicInteger Wanna bet?

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4 years

This is the best argument I’ve seen for @AndrewYang

Formerly 'AM JOY' on @MSNBC

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4 years

Poll: Will you support the Democratic nominee even if it is not your candidate? #AMJoy

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1 year

Yesterday was my last official day at Twitter. I was not offered “3 months of severance” nor was anyone, to my knowledge. I was offered zero. By Elon’s own admission, this is illegal.

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2 years

Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.

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1 year

@bchesky @Airbnb 🧠💬 please let it be Jeroen

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2 years

Just another day, commuting to Twitter HQ in my Tesla vehicle: a great car made by a great man.

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1 year

For those following along: today I receive a personal call from Airbnb CEO @bchesky and CTO Ari Balogh, apologizing for the bug, explaining what happened, and assuring me it wouldn’t happen again. Amazing customer support by Airbnb, as usual! (And Jeroen has been marked safe.)

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1 year

I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know an engineer at Airbnb named Jeroen who’s using my listing (Room.first) as sample data for testing? If so, could you please ask him to find a different room?

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1 year

@AbhijitCMehta @Airbnb I heard that testing in prod is the only way to really know that something works 100% for sure.

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1 year

@holman @Airbnb It reminds me of the bug on GitHub where every user without a profile photo showed @wycats ’s photo because the Ruby ID of nil is 4, which happened to be Yehuda’s user ID.

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2 years

Just another day at the office, making myself a coffee…Nice!

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10 months

@MaxRadniecki I don’t think so. They changed it to X on the Google Play Store for Android.

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2 years

Here’s another one he just asked: Why do baseball players wear caps with the brim in front but firefighters wear hats with the brim in the back? Answer: Baseball players want to keep the sun out of their eyes; firefighters want to keep the water off their backs. Today I learned!

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4 months

@Austen Barrier to entry is buying thousands of dollars of equipment, which keeps out most thieves.

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1 year

@gluemesh @Airbnb If I was, do you think I’d be complaining?

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5 years

If someone rebranded black bed sheets as “AirPod-locating sheets”, targeted Instagram users in SF and NYC, and sold them at a 20% markup, they’d have a decent little business.

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2 years

@thebc12 I tried this too

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2 years

Just another day at the office, making myself a coffee…Nice!

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1 year

@pmarca or the Amish take over

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2 years

@amdev Starting my new career as a comedian. I call this the reverse- @dickc .

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1 year

Thinking about selling all my $GOOG stock

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1 year

@TibaStefan1 @Airbnb Believe me, I’ve tried…but I receive this error message:

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Erik Berlin

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1 year

@didip @Airbnb I attended this meetup at 19 Rausch Street—where @jgebbia and @bchesky lived in 2008—where they launched Airbnb (called Airbed & Breakfast at the time), so I was among the first people to sign up for the site. My face is in some of the early screenshots.

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Erik Berlin

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2 years

At this point I’m trying to make a big impact at Twitter if only so that my character will have a speaking role in the movie.

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1 year

After taking on $13 billion in debt and laying off 75% of the staff, Twitter’s financials are…approximately where they were at end of 2021.

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1 year

@WSJ Last 3 months were extremely tough, as had to save Twitter from bankruptcy, while fulfilling essential Tesla & SpaceX duties. Wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone. Twitter still has challenges, but is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it. Public support is much appreciated!

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2 years

My 3yo was drinking a bottle of milk in one hand and a bottle of water in the other and I made the mistake of saying, “When you’re drinking two bottles, that’s called double-fisting” and now whenever he’s drinking one bottle he proudly declares, “I’m fisting!” Please send help.

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2 years

Ain't no rest for the Comms team

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1 year

@engineers_feed the double-slit experiment

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2 years

Day 1 at X

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13 years

The problem with your code is that it's doing exactly what you told it to do.

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Erik Berlin

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3 years

Join my team to work on Super Follows at Twitter! My highest priority is hiring a few iOS engineers but feel free to apply if you’re an Android, web, or backend engineer. Send me a DM after you fill out this form and I’ll prioritize your application:

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Erik Berlin

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5 months

@DavidSacks What would you expect advertisers to do if The New York Times endorsed the idea that “Jewish communties have been pushing dialectical hatred against whites”? Do you agree that is the actual truth?

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3 years

Arguably the luckiest startup office in San Francsico is available to rent. (Twitter and Instagram both started here.)

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Erik Berlin

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2 years

@ahmetb Could that possibly be true? This is how I clothe my child

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Erik Berlin

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4 years

I co-authored the open source Ruby library for Twitter (). It has 4.3k stars on GitHub and has been downloaded 11 million times. I’d love to update the library for Twitter API v2 but I’ve been denied access to even see the documentation. I guess I won’t. 🤷‍♂️

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Build on Twitter again!

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8 years

She said “yes”!

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1 year

@secengjeff @Airbnb Believe me, I tried

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1 year

@roshanpateI Hire and make sure everyone on the team refers to market in the way product prefers.

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2 years

This will be the last tweet in this series. Congrats to the lettuce.

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8 years

“What the heck did I name that git branch?” List branches by committer date instead of alphabetically: git branch --sort=-committerdate

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1 year

@czechboy0 @holman @Airbnb @wycats In 64-bit Ruby implementations, nil is 8, but this was back in the day.

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Erik Berlin

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4 years

Someone needs to make a VC job title decoder ring. Examples: investor = not an investor (used to be called “associate” until founders learned not to talk to associates) chief of staff = you will be the only staff member (used when a VC wants to hire a male executive assistant)

Geoff Lewis

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Hiring a Chief of Staff to work with me across everything - from highly monotonous to highly wtf. Not an investment role. But never boring. NYC based. Email me to apply by New Years Day. Happy New Year!

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5 years

iPod shipped 18 years ago today. What’s remarkable is that the core stacking menu user interface is still recognizable in today’s iPhone.

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7 years

When we got married, @dianakimball and I decided to create a new family identity from scratch. Now, I’m Erik Berlin!

Becoming Berlins — Diana Kimball Berlin

On June 24, 2017, Erik and I got married. In that moment, we became a family. For us, that meant taking on a new family name. And so: we’re now officially Diana & Erik Berlin! Almost as soon as we...

dianaberlin.com

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Erik Berlin

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1 year

@moderniselife @Airbnb Not yet, but I hope to meet him when he stays with me in September.

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Erik Berlin

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3 years

Some professional news…

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Erik Berlin

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2 years

Dude signed up for Super Follows and—after one day—is on track to gross $48,000 per year.

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400+ super followers in 1 day. Mindblown 🤯

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1 year

@leahculver LOL I tried

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4 years

@engineers_feed That explains why πrates can’t be reasoned with: they’re irrational.

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1 year

AI can’t take your job if you don’t have one

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Are you worried that AI will take your job within the next five years?

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1 year

@AdamBlackhall @Airbnb TFW you are the test data

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3 years

@LondonBreed Why is this something the Board of Supervisors even gets to vote on?

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5 years

First Father’s Day as a dad

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@PhoenixHawk @Airbnb Believe me, I’ve tried

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3 months

@paulg Wait until he discovers Dutch

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1 year

@winemedineme @AkivaMCohen We chatted earlier today.

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1 year

🫡

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2 years

This is truly remarkable

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1 year

BREAKING: Twitter algorithm source code revealed… if (user.screenname == "elonmusk") { tweet.score += 100 // Please don’t fire me }

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2 years

Twitter algorithm should be open source

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Erik Berlin

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3 years

Today is my first day working at Twitter. I’m going to have an opportunity to ask Jack a question. What should I ask him? (Note: I probably won’t be able to share his answer publicly.)

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3 years

First day of school vibes

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5 years

SoundCloud isn’t as cool as it used to be.

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3 years

Amazing to see Twitter staff making hundreds of sandwiches for the hungry in San Francsico while the office is closed #TwitterForGoodDay

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2 years

@fermatslibrary Little did they know, they were living in the year −179

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1 year

@styer @Airbnb In all seriousness, you should use or test.test for testing

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2 years

@bchesky Mid-booking cleaning would be nice, especially for longer trips. Hosts could charge 2X or 3X the cleaning fee to have a service come once or twice during a stay. I don’t need nightly turndown service, but after a week, a place can get pretty messy, especially traveling with kids.

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2 years

Can someone explain what Google did here?

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Erik Berlin

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6 years

Confession: I buy podcast-length summaries of business books which I’ve always wanted to read but never found time for. It’s a lot easier for me to find 20 minutes of ear time versus 3 hours of eye time. Cheaper too!

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6 years

Feeling old, seeing myself on a slide in the Airbnb 10-year anniversary presentation:

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4 years

@leahculver @bennett6814 “Primary” and “replica” are more descriptive alternatives for databases, among other systems.

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4 years

@bgurley Special tweetment

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1 year

Update from the Airbnb Slack

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1 year

I know it’s a long shot, but does anyone know an engineer at Airbnb named Jeroen who’s using my listing (Room.first) as sample data for testing? If so, could you please ask him to find a different room?

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10 months

Shot, chaser

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1 year

@unusual_whales I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.

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4 years

this.tweet.likes.forEach(like => new Tweet({topic: "software development at startups"}))

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

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Thread of opinion threads (some are doing 1 per like, others are just going straight for a target number)

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2 years

The Last Supper?

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9 years

Male privilege means never having to think about this when getting dressed: http://t.co/6L8wF3LKku

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7 years

I feel bad for @melissamccarthy waking up to this horrible news

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Erik Berlin

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3 years

After 37 years, 5 months, and 1 day, I have increased the text size on my iPhone and decreased the resolution on my MacBook. Everything is much easier to read and I wish I had done it earlier. I am officially middle aged.

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1 year

Community note: He doesn’t actually have to pay money to himself. He can just flip on the checkmark in the database.

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1 year

@paulg I’ll pay for yours

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10 years

http://t.co/2f1nsAPoKq

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Erik Berlin

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9 months

Who’s that good looking gentleman in the screenshot?

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On this day 15 years ago, Airbnb launched. It was actually our third launch; nobody noticed the first two

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1 year

Can someone explain why the Venmo app is nearly 400 MB?

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1 year

@EricBerliner @Airbnb You too, sir

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5 years

Nice work everyone.

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1 year

@fnnch @micsolana Instruction should happen at home (watching Khan Academy videos or whatever the absolute best lesson is for a given subject) and then “homework” can be done at school, where a teacher can help explain if you didn’t understand something in the videos or need help getting unstuck.

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5 years

If you outlaw wealth, we will all be poorer.

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Billionaires should not exist.

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1 year

How my day started, at 3:30 AM, a list: 1. 2yo threw up (twice; once in her crib) 2. her nanny apparently has the same bug and called-in sick 3. wife left for the airport and will be gone for a week 4. 4yo woke up and wanted to cuddle in our bed, so I didn’t get back to sleep

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@capimx @didip @Airbnb @jgebbia @bchesky @Airbnbdesign I did not (and it’s one of the top 5 mistakes I’ve ever made)

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4 years

What has 4 wheels and costs $54,000?

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7 months

@wagieeacc Good thing you blacked out his phone number in the footer.

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5 years

Programming isn’t a crime. We need to cancel every penny of technical debt.

Josh Hendrickson

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5 years

Owning a home isn’t a crime. We need to cancel every penny of mortgage debt. Owning a car isn’t a crime. We need to cancel every auto loan. Am I doing this right?

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8 years

Ruby: "\t\r\n".strip.empty? Swift: "\t\r\n".stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet()).isEmpty

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4 years

@NateSilver538 Why do you give Sanders get partial credit for finishing second in Iowa but Buttigieg doesn’t get partial credit in New Hampshire, despite tying Sanders’ delegate count?

Decision Desk HQ

@DecisionDeskHQ

4 years

While we wait for more results, we have preliminary delegate numbers that seem unlikely to change. Sanders 9 Buttigieg 9 Klobuchr 6

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10 years

Coming soon to a pull request near you (by @bobthecow ): http://t.co/OwaRtMLtrJ

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8 years

“Just trust us. It's better.”

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9 months

I rewrote the Twitter Ruby @gem , renaming it to X and adding support for API v1.1, API v2, Enterprise (Gnip) API, and Ads API. The old version was over 3,000 lines of code plus 7,500 test lines. The new version is 200 lines of code plus 200 test lines.

GitHub - sferik/x-ruby: A Ruby interface to the X API.

A Ruby interface to the X API. Contribute to sferik/x-ruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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