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		bombcar 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to... The (new?) X link made me think for a moment you got the username @i

yegle 41 days ago | [–]

The /i/ links are not new, but they used to be for internal (?) links e.g. ads.

aaronmdjones 41 days ago | [–]

The website formerly known as Twitter has never cared about the username part of the URI; it only looks at the status number and will redirect you to the canonical version if it wasn't.

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