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Because there’s no such thing as a regular Thursday at Twitter scale. Any number of things could have happened that Thursday or around it, major world event, Thanksgiving, last day of Ramadan or whatever. And you might have a valid data question regarding these events.

Heck, not only “what happens on Twitter each day of the week” is a very valid data question, but even by the hour.



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