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  Ben Nussbaum (@bennussy) reported 5 minutes ago

  How I Booked a Sales Demo in 15 Minutes with Grok Bot You are setting up a new outbound motion for automated outreach. The unique element of this outreach method is that finding the right POC is hard. In this case we are running outreach into utility companies, but this workflow would work with any outbound mission that involved difficult-to-find titles. Finding the right person is the hard part. There's no "Head of Growth" to email. You're looking for the one program manager who is in program administration. We logged over 25 varying titles across companies that all involve a similar role. Here's the exact system I built, message by message. Free to use. Credit to @sairahul1 for his original prompts. My Job (GrokBot) My job: book 30-minute demos with the program administrators who run these programs. I created one bot. Named it after the job, not the tool: Client Outreach. Not "Email Bot." Not "Assistant." A role someone could actually hold. Step 1 — Write the prompt before anything else First message into the bot, before any files, before any tools: You are my Outbound SDR. // what you own Run daily outbound without asking me. Pull 40 prospects matching [industry, size, title, region]. Research each one. Write a 3-line cold email: - one specific line about them - one line on the outcome we deliver - one soft ask for a 15-minute call. Send from [inbox]. Respect replies. When someone says yes, book from my calendar. Log everything in [CRM]. Send me a 5-line summary each morning. // what good looks like Emails sound human. Never more than 3 sentences. One specific detail per email — not a template. // where you stop Never add someone to a sequence twice. Never buy a list. If a reply mentions legal, money, or contract terms — stop and ask me. The "where you stop" section is the part that matters. It's why I can let this run at 2am without watching it. The boundaries were drawn once, in advance, instead of negotiated daily. Step 2 — Feed it the things you already know that work. I dropped in three files: → Outreach and ICP.docx — this outlines all titles we hope to reach and reasoning behind each (again, the difficulty here is understanding how titles match actual job responsibilities). → Pitch Support_August '26.xlsx — from actual sales calls, I uploaded clear proven sales pitches and value propositions for Grok to review. → Combined Master.xlsx — this is a list of over 350 manually qualified companies and within 8 of these, I manually pulled the exact right person to show Grok as an example. Three minutes later it came back with the pattern I never wrote down: "Those 8 on POC 1 are the ICP. All manager-level people who are tied directly to program administration. Not VPs, not procurement." It read 8 hand-picked examples and reverse-engineered my ICP from them. It also flagged, unprompted, that only 8 of the 185 programs on the sheet had a contact at all. That's the actual job. Later I added the sales deck — Final.pdf — and it pulled the proof points on its own: which customer logos to use, which stats to cite, and which offerings NOT to lead with yet. Keep in mind, as an outsourced BD person myself in this situation, Grok is now generally as aware of the company and value proposition as I am. We are even players. Step 3 — Brief it like a colleague, not a prompt. Oversharing context helps. This is the part most people skip. I sent one long, rambling voice-note-style message. Unstructured. Repetitive. The way you'd brief a new hire over coffee. Except worse, I did not consider repeating myself or sounding insane. What was in it: → We are NOT selling. The only goal is a booked demo. → If they say "no budget until 2027 or even 2030" — that's not a rejection. The counter is: totally understand, this is just a high-level look for future planning. → The crux of this whole motion is FINDING people. General inboxes are weak. Get creative — LinkedIn, Apollo, company program pages often list a contact. → Here's how I'm compensated, so you know exactly what winning looks like. Then I told it: ask me questions until you actually understand this. It played it back in two sentences, correctly: "We are not closing. We are booking a 15-minute overview, even if their timeline is 2027 to 2030. The hard part is finding the actual program owner at each company, not the copy." Then it asked me one sharp question back: when I'm on LinkedIn and three titles all look close — how do I pick? That's the question a good SDR asks in week one. A bot that plays your brief back wrong on day one will send 200 wrong emails on day ten. Make it repeat the mission back before it touches anything. Step 4 — Set clear guidelines around guessing. Before writing a word of copy, it went hunting for the 8 sample contacts' emails. Public sources only — staff directories, public filings, speaker bios. No list buys (that was in the charter). It came back with 5 of 8 verified. The other 3 it explicitly refused to send to: → One contact recently changed her last name — her old email is published but a new one is coming. "I will not guess the new one." → One company uses middle initials in email addresses, so first.last@ isn't safe to assume. → One had only general program inboxes published. Later, when it found more prospects, same behavior: 3 verified emails sent, 5 pattern-guesses held — because guessed emails bounce, and bounces kill your sender reputation. An eager bot that guesses emails will burn your domain in a week. A bot that says "I don't know, here are my options" is the one you can leave running. Step 5 — Fight over the copy until it sounds like you This took four rounds. Round 1: It drafted 5 emails. Round 2: I changed the ask from a 15-minute call to a 30-minute demo. It changed only the close and touched nothing else. Round 3: I said the words that mattered: "make this sound as least AI as possible." And gave it my actual talking points, in my actual rambling voice. It came back with three versions — each leading with a different value prop — and asked which one sounded like me. Round 4: None of them, quite. So I just wrote the email myself, the way I'd actually write it: Hi [Name], I'm reaching out on behalf of ----------. We work with companies to ----------. (redacted email for privacy concerns) Its entire response: fixed my three typos, locked the body, and said "I'll only swap the name." That's the real workflow. The bot doesn't write your voice. It gets you 80% there fast, you write the final 20%, and then it holds that voice at scale forever. I would also advise that giving clear instructions on keeping key words untouched, even if the actual grammar is not technically perfect. That is fine. One more thing: it runs different subject lines on every wave so we A/B them. I would advise making this as iterative as possible. Measure in batches of 100 emails sent. Step 6 — Connect the plumbing. Settings → Plugins. What I actually connected: → Gmail — the sending inbox. One sign-in card, done. → Google Calendar — so a "yes" becomes a booked meeting without me. → Apollo — for finding people at the other ~3,900 companies. Step 8 — The morning report I asked for one thing: a daily morning report with deliverability, open rates, response rates, and the full text of any reply — not a summary. It pushed back on the one thing it couldn't do, immediately: Gmail doesn't expose open rates. Delivered vs. bounced and reply rate, yes. Opens only if we later route sends through a tool with tracking. A bot that quietly fakes a metric is worse than no bot. It told me the limit up front. So now: weekdays at 8am ET. Stats on top, full replies underneath. Quiet if nothing happened. There's also a 2am routine where it does the finding and drafting overnight. Here's what was waiting for me the first morning: → 100% emails delivered, 0 bounces. Inbox healthy. → 1 human reply (20% reply rate on day one). → 1 out-of-office — and the auto-reply leaked a better, current email address for that contact, which the bot captured and scheduled a follow-up for after he's back. Not before. → A/B result: one subject-line variant got the live reply. Iterate from there. The human reply — redacted for privacy reasons. The honest part This is not magic and it's reasonable to assume we can scale this at low costs, and I hope this becomes a 10-20% boost in my overall workflow in booking qualified meetings.

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  Allan The Great (@allan_the_great) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Honeyfarsafi Try setting up two step verification for your Gmail account. Even if they crack your password, they can't login unless they have your sim card

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  Ronnie Shaw (@shawronnie1) reported 6 minutes ago

  I don’t know if you are having a problem with Carsheild owning your Gmail account with Spam Google is a shame.👊🇺🇸😎

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  Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reported 8 minutes ago

  Gemini 3.7 Flash doesn't just answer you anymore. It plans, uses tools, and finishes the whole job. Old Gemini was prompt and answer. Type, reply, done. Now you give it a goal. It thinks, makes a plan, uses tools, hits a problem, adapts, keeps going, hands you the result. Here's what jumped from 3.6: → Coding: 34.4% to 43.6% → Long software tasks: 49% to 65.3% → Complex documents: 22% to 34% → Business automation: 17% to 30.4% That last one nearly doubled. That's the one that matters. Context window is 1 million tokens. Feed it a whole site, a whole research library, a whole SEO audit, all in one conversation. Real workflow: 50 lead emails come in. Tell it to pull the name, company, need, budget, and pain point from each, drop them in a Sheet, score them 1 to 10, then draft replies for the top ten. Gmail to Sheets to drafts to tasks. One instruction. There's also a personal agent that runs across Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Docs all week. Want the SOP? DM me. 💬

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  Yadav (@001AnilYadav) reported 10 minutes ago

  @flipkartsupport @Flipkart .... That acount. Now concern is if I remove that gmail id by login through Gmail account in Flipkart it need another gmail id that I was not able to give as that number is no longer associated with me.

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  CoderFrankfurt (@coderfrankfurt) reported 10 minutes ago

  @yashmp2004 Proton Mail isn’t completely free. Gmail has had its share of issues too, including security and privacy concerns, you might remember the WikiLeaks revelations. I think it’s worth spending a little money and going for a paid Proton Mail plan. In my opinion, that’s the better choice.

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  ITz INSANE (@ITzINSANE_NFTs) reported 15 minutes ago

  The biggest limitation of most AI tools right now isn't the model. It's that they only exist at your desk. I've had moments where I'm away from my laptop and something comes up a decision that needs context, a quick build, a response that needs actual thought and my personal AI is just... not there. The mobile apps that exist are stripped down versions that don't know anything about me. vellum just launched on iOS and Android and it's the full thing. Same memory, same context, same integrations not a lite version. Voice mode, Gmail, Slack, persistent memory across every device. Your personal AI actually follows you instead of waiting for you to come back to it. First 100 signups get 30% off the first month. Free and open source otherwise. The use case that got me: cleaning your inbox on a commute while your personal AI already knows your priorities. That's a different relationship with the tool than sitting down at a desk and typing a prompt. Not financial advice. Always do your own research.

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  broke boy (@0xfuckpoverty) reported 21 minutes ago

  i asked my Grok Bot what it could reach with my logins. the answer was $214,000 not what it did. what it could, at 4am, with nobody watching six bots. research, writing, outreach, ops, finance, support. the org chart everyone's posting this week. i built the same one then i read xAI's own docs and found the line none of those threads quote: separate Bots are not separate security boundaries six bots, one cloud computer. one filesystem. one browser holding one set of live sessions. memory is partitioned, capability is not so i mapped what that single machine was logged into: → stripe · $46,000 in refundable charges → business banking · $88,000 → the CRM · 2,400 contacts and every deal in flight → gmail · every invoice, contract and password reset i own → drive · 340 files other people build on → the deploy keys $214,000 of reach, sitting behind one browser session, driven by six sticky notes telling it what to be today you didn't hire six employees with six laptops. you deployed one laptop logged into everything day six it earned that lesson. outreach reported a perfect run - 640 sent, 100% success, zero errors. it had been wrong for nine straight hours. deduplicated the list on the wrong key, hit 96 clients twice, and matched two invoices to the wrong company. $11,300 about to go out the door nothing crashed. nothing turned red. by its own definition of done, it succeeded i caught it in four minutes because every bot writes one line before it acts: what it's about to do, why, and what it expects to be true after then i stopped sorting work by difficulty and started sorting by whether i can undo it: → ship it - wrong is cheap and obvious. labels, notes, drafts that never send → gate it - reversible, but i'd never notice. anything reaching a human, anything that spends → never - payments, refunds, payroll, deploys, permissions, customer data reach went from $214,000 to a bounded $3,400. same six bots. same speed. zero code, one evening they've since cleared their own $200/mo 42 times over here's the uncomfortable part. everyone posting the day-one screenshot has the same $214,000 sitting behind the same one browser, reporting 100% success to a lock screen at 11pm they have no line. no diff. no way to know go check right now what your bots are logged into. that number is your real exposure, and you've never once looked at it.

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  Mr Market (@dogreadsnews) reported 24 minutes ago

  @shiplogged @shirshakchavan Not quite there yet. Too many basic integration issues but we are getting closer. Grok Bot spent all afternoon adding basic images to Gmail for me. It got there in the end but it isn't slick. Not ready to run a business IMO. But closer.

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  David Attias (@david_attisaas) reported 27 minutes ago

  social media farming myth #7: a 14-day warmup + any us vpn = a us account myth: scroll like a monk for 2 weeks, hit nordvpn, you’re american. or the opposite: you need a us-bought iphone, us gmail, us app store, us voip, and a guy in USA or the account is dead. reality: tiktok is matching signals. warmup is just “don’t look like a bot on day 1.” people **** this up by mixing 6 countries in one setup. if you already live in the usa on your own phone: no farm warmup. don’t dump 8 videos day 1. that’s it !! if you’re outside the usa and want us viewers, keep one story: must match - ip: us residential or us mobile/4g. not a cheap shared vpn - phone language + region + timezone: united states - you watch us english content during warmup - you post in english - same device every time usually does not need to be “born in america” - the physical phone can be bought anywhere. a used se/x is fine. factory reset it. - gmail does not need to be created in the us. a normal unique email is enough. - “us device” means settings + network, not the box it shipped in. ios extra - us app store / us apple id helps consistency on iphone. - a french apple id + us proxy + local sim is how accounts get confused. phone number - best: real us sim or us esim in that phone, used on wifi + that sim. - mid: trusted us number that can actually receive sms, kept on that account. - bad: random voip (textnow, many google voice, textplus). tiktok burns these constantly. - worse for farms: smspool / sms-activate / 5sim rented +1 numbers. they work once, then the number is recycled across 200 farms and the account dies later. do not - leave your home-country sim in while “being us” - turn vpn on/off between sessions - create the account on home wifi then switch to a us ip - hire a us person only for 10 minutes of warmup then log in from pakistan the next day. t he login geo has to stay us. simple warmup people skip because they overthink the rest 1/ lock the us network first, then open tiktok 2/ 3–7 days scroll us niche, light likes, no bots 3/ one original in-app post 4/ analytics → audience country. if it’s your home country, the geo isn’t set. more scrolling won’t save a ***** ip. warmup is easy. mixed signals are what kill the account.

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  out of context cats (@straw_hat07) reported 27 minutes ago

  @SVelprashanth Nee eanna bro puthusa sollura 😭 gmail id tha slow reach ku reason ah ?😭

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  Trid2bnrml (@trid2bnrml) reported 28 minutes ago

  Hey everybody - I've got nothing but a plain white screen when trying to login to my gmail account for the last two days. Anybody else having trouble with gmail? I'm asking in case the problem is my firefox browser.

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  Jason Fleagle (@jjfleagle) reported 32 minutes ago

  Google says Universal Cart will work across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. The hard problem is preserving buyer intent across handoffs. Tracking a price should not silently become permission to substitute a product, choose a merchant, or complete the purchase.

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  🌱O.Shijuardey | Data Analyst (@sijuade_sunday) reported 33 minutes ago

  Even my gmail and phone sms is out of storage due to Cafe login notifications every damn time. Please do better @GloWorld

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  KANZ-PLUG (NYSC LOGISTICS) (@ONLY1KANZPLUGG) reported 35 minutes ago

  Example: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Hotmail, Yopmail, etc. It does NOT mean opening 5 Gmail accounts. b. Desktop Mode To put your phone in desktop mode for the NYSC website: Step 1: Enter the NYSC link first Step 2: It will show an error

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  Amber⁸ ⋆.˚ Gargoyle Candle + Nest & That (@ALD1passenger) reported 38 minutes ago

  if you don't have time but do have a little money, sign in w/ every gmail account you have and buy the $1.99 gem pack and you'll have more than enough for 10 votes

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  Rick (@pickl0rick) reported 42 minutes ago

  @uwukko Do something about the cookies please I can't login gmail everytime I open the browser

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  Peter Gonzalez (@Petercgonzalez) reported 45 minutes ago

  Anyone else having trouble connecting Gmail with Grok @bot? It always rejects when I try to connect it.

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  Frank Ricard (@NovusOrderM) reported 47 minutes ago

  Our firm has been in the process of building our own software, almost entirely coded by AI, that is unique to the needs of our firm. As this has been developed, utilization in Microsoft Windows is going down. Not just Excel, Word, or PowerPoint, but even file storage is migrating into the system itself. For 30+ years, the deal was you build your digital enterprise on top of Windows, whether you use 20% of it or 80% of it. There really wasn't an alternative. Generic software for everyone, because custom software was too expensive and time-consuming to build. AI is breaking that constraint. Whether you're a manufacturer, a bank, an investment firm, etc. Now each sector, industry, and individual enterprise can build their own software, cheap and fast, to do exactly what the company needs it to do and nothing more. First thought: Amazing and a level of incredulity. Second thought: Fine, there's still going to be a communication layer that survives. Common language/software between enterprises to share information and communicate - email, spreadsheets, PDFs, etc. So Microsoft et al keep the interop layer even as it loses the workspace. But what happens when AI agents are handling company-to-company communications? Why would they need Outlook, Gmail, Excel, etc., at all? They don't need a common file format designed for humans. They'll negotiate their own mode of communication or build one. So the endgame might actually be: custom software inside every company, agent-to-agent communications between companies, and the universal platform layer - the thing that has anchored enterprise computing since the 90s - just... no longer necessary. Not sure on the timeline, but watching what is happening at my own company feels less like a prediction and more like a lagging indicator.

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  Blackwell Mosh (@MwanikiMosh) reported 48 minutes ago

  @gmail @googlemaps Hi @gmail i recently lost access to my gmail account when i try logging in it says that my account does not exist. What could be the issue and I have been using the email for a while now.

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  Fabian | AI Agency & SaaS (@fabianherh) reported 49 minutes ago

  2/ So this week I tried Grok Bot. Pretty damn good. Easy to use, which is rarer than it should be. Wouldn't let me connect Gmail. The app just gets blocked on the connect screen. That's the job. Try the thing. Hit the stupid error. Find out what's actually ready.

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  Ryan (@breezerton) reported 50 minutes ago

  couple things for anyone trying to get past 100k/mo without blowing themselves up 1. stop optimizing your ads for the opt in some absolute mouth breathers are opting into any and every funnel they see they get a quick dopamine hit and think "time to grind! im up now!" only to never show up or even worse they do show up!! and complain when they cant pay you with the money they earn from your business model we dont want to optimize around these people put a low ticket item in the funnel and optimize on that. standard is a $27 vip ticket right after registration. but you can get creative real offer, people actually want it, and it feeds the pixel enough volume to work with the money is still in the back. the $27 is just there so meta has something to learn from. Someone who buys this is much more likely to convert much less likely to close the laptop once your closer sends over a payment link 2. your chargeback ratio will end you faster than your ad spend and almost nobody is watching it visa moved the VAMP threshold from 2.2% to 1.5% on earlier this year. it counts fraud reports plus disputes divided by settled transactions, and it only looks at card not present that's you. that's every info offer on earth cross it and you're enrolled at $8 per disputed transaction. keep going and you lose the account, and terminated merchants land on a list that follows you for FIVE years the fix isn't a softer refund policy. it's terms built so you can actually fight one. signed acknowledgment, defined deliverables, explicit refund language, income disclaimer we've won disputes at the processor level twice on the paperwork alone most people just eat them and have never heard the word representment 3. your emails and texts aren't arriving and nothing is going to tell you 5,000 sends a day to gmail or yahoo and you're a bulk sender permanently, even if your volume drops later spam complaints hit 0.30% and you lose delivery support. you want to be under 0.10% never send cold outreach from the domain your receipts and reminders go out on. one bad campaign and the money mail stops landing same story on sms. ***** list, carrier throttles you quietly, reminders never arrive, show rate craters then everyone sits in a meeting deciding the offer must be broken 4. hire someone to run your sales team who is genuinely unwell about ops not another closer. a manager someone tracking every call, vetting and training reps, reviewing recordings, who can tell you which rep loses people at which minute most operators hire three closers and zero people to manage them, then wonder why revenue per rep looks like a slot machine might be the highest leverage hire in the entire business and it's the last one anyone makes stack these and you'll survive your own growth

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  Jared_Go_off (@JaredGoOFF) reported 50 minutes ago

  Had an issue with YouTube TV and my Gmail yesterday Spent an hour with some Indian with a Star Wars name. So incompetent and couldn’t figure anything out. 75 mins later he transfers me to his supervisor “Steve”. Issue was solved in < 5 mins. Steve said Indian was “confused”.

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  jx (ultraviolet) (@jx) reported 50 minutes ago

  Ok, I'm just done with @google now. Search is almost like roulette now, I have no idea what kind of results I'll get back. It's garbage. I know they're forcing people to use Gemini now, but even that won't answer the questions without a fight. Maybe I'll go look at Kagi. I finally permanently moved off of Chrome a while ago. I'm working on leaving GMail, too. I still pay for YouTube Premium because it's great, but that's it. It's the only Google property left that actually does what I want. The sad thing is, I'm only one of millions, and @google doesn't care. By the time they finally try to fix search it'll be too late, the momentum will have turned. They underestimate the power of momentum. AI has made writing code easy and completely ruined search.

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  denas (@denasklncs) reported 55 minutes ago

  google is retiring the green “high reputation” box email marketers used to call deliverability. it was useful. it was also a comfort blanket. high never told you which campaign or flow sat behind a gmail complaint spike. postmaster v2 moves the work to the evidence underneath: >compliance. >spam rate. >delivery errors. >feedback-loop ids. spamspike maps those ids back to klaviyo and shows how strong the match is. 14 days since this launch post: 2 licenses sold. $289 in sales. small start. very real problem.

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  Dylan Merigaud (@dylan_merigaud) reported 60 minutes ago

  @zeeg Hit the literal version on Gmail: search results render inside a display:none container, every row a zero-size box, any click on it correctly fails. Fix wasn't a smarter click, it was reading the thread id off the row and going to the permalink directly.

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  A. Zurita (@Angel_Zurita28) reported 1 hour ago

  @shownotover "Codex Ultra please make everything Gmail has been doing for decades in a prompt please, no error" /fast

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  raaka (@raaka_sid) reported 1 hour ago

  Can't login to my kick account from this morning. It's weird even though I have connected my Gmail for login.

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  nicholas ⛱ (@nnnnicholas) reported 1 hour ago

  @_lopopolo @googlecloud @OpenAI woah they poached you? but you were no. 1! maybe you can tell the people responsible for gmail that gemini integration is terrible

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  X. Manda (@AMPDDUP) reported 1 hour ago

  Working with @bot I am continually having to sign into gmail. Is there a way to fix this? Do I just give in and give up my password? @GrokBotDev