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		chimeracoder on March 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services > Friends is bi-directional, no? Not in Livejournal lingo - remember, this is pre-Facebook. Livejournal's 'friend' and 'friend of' worked exactly the same as Twitter's 'following' and 'followers'.

roc on March 20, 2013 [–]

That would seem to be prior art for that element then, depending on the dates. Though now we'd have to dig into the rest of the elements.

And apparently I'm getting downvoted for not being familiar with LiveJournal, so that's something someone else would have to do.

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