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The original article's title has "of thousands", but somewhere in the chain from there to the HN title, the information got distorted.

But, isn't that just how it always works when you play Telephone?

So use “thousands” rather than “tens of”

I have tens of phones, well certainly more than 10, that suggest a story on e-waste for the average person.

It was a joke about the game which goes by several different names including "telephone": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Tens of thousands is slightly more newsworthy :)

(Current HN headline is “Wisconsin couple has tens of old phones – and nobody to buy them”.)

Now it's "Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them"

...which I read as between 2 and 5 (one for each of them or landlines at one-ish for each room of their house).

Indeed, I have tens of old phones on my desk right now.

Thousands of tens!

Known as myriads to many ancient civilizations.

Fun fact: in modern Greek a million is called "ekatommyrio", which means 100 (ekató) myriads.