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Closes #78.

badgen.net's Twitter integration has been broken since the X API lockdown, so the follow badge at the top of the README rendered empty. This switches to the shields.io equivalent and makes it a clickable link to the X profile (consistent with the CI and prettier badges).

-![twitter](https://flat.badgen.net/twitter/follow/WebarkitO)
+[![X (formerly Twitter) Follow](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/WebarkitO)](https://x.com/WebarkitO)

Note on the URL: the suggested fix in #78 used /follow/:WebarkitO. I verified against shields.io that the leading colon becomes part of the displayed handle (renders as "Follow @:WebarkitO"), so I used the colon-free /follow/WebarkitO which renders correctly as "Follow @WebarkitO". shields.io no longer shows a follower count (X API deprecation), so the badge is a plain "Follow @WebarkitO" button — still working and clickable, unlike the old broken one.

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badgen.net's Twitter integration has been broken since the X API lockdown,
so the follow badge rendered empty. Switch to the shields.io equivalent
and make it a clickable link to the X profile (consistent with the CI and
prettier badges).

Note: the user's suggested URL in #78 used '/follow/:WebarkitO' -- verified
against shields.io that the leading colon becomes part of the displayed
handle ('Follow @:WebarkitO'), so the colon-free '/follow/WebarkitO' is
used instead. shields.io no longer renders a follower count (X API
deprecation), so the badge shows a plain 'Follow @WebarkitO' button.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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