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Oh, so that's what brought down the bot!

Actually, we're still testing it, and it has been down 2 days, but I think it's unrelated. There is no reason the extra @ should be a problem for it, but I will check with the development team.

Interestingly, steemit makes 3 @ out of the 2 @ I have written

@username
@@@username
@@@@username