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Students in the 2010s were building twitter clones as part of third-year college courses.

And somehow twitter survived and thrived and didn't really get viable competitors until forces external to the code and product itself motivated other investment. And even then it still rolls on, challenged these days, but not by the ease of which a "clone" can be made.



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