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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 May 2020

    Jessica has avoided creating a Paypal account till now because she knew the UX would be appalling. She fills out the first page of the signup form. It fails, with the message "An error has occurred."

    3:04 AM - 25 May 2020
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    • Chris McCarney Ram Venkatesh 1S0L473 Banked : Lee Eyerman Ivan Erceg Aravind Ajith OuterSpac3 Jimmy
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      2. Iwan Gulenko  🤓 💰‏ @iwangulenko 25 May 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        Don't do it; they will hold your money hostage

        1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
      3. Manuel Hernandez  🇺🇸‏ @manuelhe 25 May 2020
        Replying to @iwangulenko @paulg

        How? I always get my money within a day?

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Jaye Pharrell‏ @jayepharrell 25 May 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        Welcome to PayPal 😂

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      2. Yvo Schaap‏ @yvoschaap 25 May 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        What about the 286 million people that were able to create an account at Paypal?

        5 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 May 2020
        Replying to @yvoschaap

        How many tried and gave up?

        13 replies 2 retweets 126 likes
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      2. Karen Replies‏ @kerobinso_repl 25 May 2020
        Replying to @tarik_a1 @TarikAbbas7 @paulg

        dude - google this!

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      1. Terence Desclain‏ @terencedesclain 25 May 2020
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        So many UX issues on PayPal but once it’s created... 😅

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      1. Matt‏ @BarrieMatt 25 May 2020
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        Square should merge with PayPal - use its distribution and scrap all of its engineering.

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      2. JORDAN COFFEY‏ @jordanmcoffey 25 May 2020
        Replying to @paulg

        If ux was a maker or breaker @facebook wouldn’t have a user base

        1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
      3. Oleg Giberstein‏ @ogiberstein 25 May 2020
        Replying to @jordanmcoffey @paulg @Facebook

        Or any Google product bar the Search Engine, Gmail and maybe maps

        0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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