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		poteto on Sept 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas? Twitter. We were monitoring certain things like "I wish I could *" and we happened to type in something like "find this dress". You can see some results: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%22find%20this%20dress%22

npguy on Sept 3, 2012 [–]

Thanks. Am thinking, this is one way Twitter could identify intents and make money.

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