They have sent over 34,000 tweets, more than three times as many as Twitter Minister Karl Lauterbach and almost twice as many as Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk. Are you a Twitter ultra? Not at all. Of course, I’ve been there for a very long time, since 2009. As a computer scientist, I always enjoy trying out new things. My most intensive Twitter phase was the four years on the government bench. During the often twelve-hour meetings, I tweeted what was happening there and commented on it in real time and engaged in dialogue.

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