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0 pointscubefox2y ago0 comments

The logo looks like the letters C and a. I wonder whether this is intentional.

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The logo is an @ with a very strange choice of typeface.

Probably a nod to the @username format that Twitter made so popular.

@ was used to reference people looooong before Twitter popularized it. In fact, it was users on Twitter already using the paradigm that made the engineers integrate it. Same as hashtags.

justinator2y ago

I don't seem to remember that. Where was that used? The closest I can think is email, which is where I thought Twitter borrowed it.

I remember hashtags being popularized first by Flickr (maybe @mentions were too?)

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tommit2y ago

What would have been the intention?

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