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Twitter admits it's too hard to use as user growth slows

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

Twitter admits it's too hard to use as user growth slows

Twitter has finally acknowledged what any newcomer could have told the company within five minutes: the messaging service is too hard to use.

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