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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They broke it shortly after Musk took over and private circle tweets became searchable and thus not private. So folks started to stop using it anyway.

I really think it's a shame because it IS a fix to a major problem with Twitter. But it never caught on the way I thought it would.