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An entire business built on a "nifty" trick that is easily replicable and is of value. Well, sooner or later it was going to copied.

Also, not sure how good the context of '$' is

>Go check out $HIT or $WAG (walgreen’s) on Twitter search or thousands

I first read that as Shit or Swag :|

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> I first read that as Shit or Swag :|

That highlights the point he's making :)

Searching StockTwits for '$WAG' results in relevant tweets about Walgreen Co. [1], whereas searching Twitter for '$WAG' results in tweets containing '$wag' in place of 'swag' [2].

[1] StockTwits '$WAG': http://stocktwits.com/symbol/WAG?q=%24wag

[2] Twitter '$WAG': http://twitter.com/#!/search/%24wag/

Then what is he complaining about? It looks like his "product" has just as much opportunity as it did before, just the $links are now a different color by default, no?

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