Maybe Twitter looks so good because the other channels are so bad.

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In a supplemental appendix, the USSS cited the increasing diversity of the criminal underground, with bad actors clustering around Internet Relay Channels (IRC), Internet-based chat rooms, or Web-based forums.

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Call it a crazy bad habit, I watch the financial news channels a fair amount.

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"If you got DirecTV I feel bad for you son, I got 999 channels and you just lost some!"

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Channels as apps is also a really bad idea.

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