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“Twitter is a cursed platform. Everyone knows this, most of all the people who spend the most time on it. A list of the worst New Zealand tweets of all time would be too long even for me. But as we look ahead to a Musk-owned Twitter future, let’s celebrate the rare rays of sunshine in the discourse abyss. These are the 10 best New Zealand tweets of all time.”
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