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<html> <head lang=en><meta charset=UTF-8><title>A note about Twitter | EF</title><link href=//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css rel=stylesheet><link href=http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inconsolata rel=stylesheet type=text/css><link rel=stylesheet href=http://nafiulis.me/theme/css/main.css><link rel=stylesheet href=http://nafiulis.me/theme/css/pygment.css><script src=http://nafiulis.me/theme/js/jquery.min.js></script><script src=http://nafiulis.me/theme/js/main.js></script></head> <body> <!--Heading at the top saying "Engineering Fantasy"--> <div id=header_top> <div class=title> <a href=http://nafiulis.me><span id=engineering>Engineering</span><span id=fantasy>Fantasy</span></a> </div> </div> <button type=button class="js-menu-trigger sliding-menu-button button-nav"> <img src=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/refills/master/source/images/menu-white.png alt="Menu Icon"> </button> <!--Navigation Bar--> <nav class="js-menu sliding-menu-content"> <span class=section-header>Pages</span> <ul> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me>Home</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/tags.html>Tags</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/pages/about-me.html>About Me</a></li> </ul> <span class=section-header>Categories</span> <ul> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/category/anime.html>Anime</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/category/education.html>Education</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/category/productivity.html>Productivity</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/category/programming.html>programming</a></li> <li><a href=http://nafiulis.me/category/rants.html>rants</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div class="js-menu-screen menu-screen"></div> <!--Main Container--> <div class=container> <!--Top most menu--> <div id=menu> <div class=left> <a href=http://nafiulis.me/feeds/all.atom.xml><i class="fa fa-rss
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