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Social media is consuming resources at an alarming rate. Every day, users post roughly 40 million tweets and 3.5 billion Facebook messages alone 1 . . . In addition to which, we have Google Plus, Kinja, Reddit, LiveJournal2, and so on . . .
Fortunately, semantic analysis of the traffic reveals a staggering amount of duplication. So to reduce bandwidth consumption, storage space, and work hours lost to “texting thumb”,3 I propose a new standardized menu that reduces each social media comment to a simple five-bit number (0 to 31):
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