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This Cake Accurately Represents Everything Happening With Twitter Right Now

By Eve Peyser Published October 4, 2016, 8:45 pm ET

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Twitter is in trouble, maybe. The company has been struggling with its harassment policy for quite a while now, is getting sued for not being popular enough, and also wants to be sold. This cake is a beautiful portrait of the company’s current state—imperfect yet somehow still alluring. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff—a potential bidder—called the site an“unpolished jewel.” So is this cake. A quasi-failure, a halfhearted attempt at something that could’ve been so much more. Even so, I’d still eat a slice. Would you?

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