• QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip
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    25 days ago

    Is he using the @ of the handle as part of the grammar of the sentence? Have I misunderstood @ all this time?!?

    • Midnitte@beehaw.org
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      25 days ago

      Crazy that not only does he not know how programming works, the owner of Twitter doesn’t even know how Twitter works.

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      25 days ago

      On some platforms if you write @username anywhere then it will act like a tag, or notify the user that you mentioned them, or other similar functionality

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        25 days ago

        He’s referring to

        This is what everyone @xAI does.

        Which Elon probably (maybe?) meant to be

        This is what everyone at @xAI does.

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          25 days ago

          I’ve never seen anyone write in that second way, I’ve only ever seen people write in that first way