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It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. Nick – the incredibly visionary behind the company and our technology. Asymmetric. Location Aware. Referral Traffic.

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