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The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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It started as that as Elon was also surprised by it (first time he knew about it) and started by saying that was indeed one of the embarrassing things that would likely be discovered and that it would be removed straight away.
Later in the talk it was answered by twitter engineers directly.. 2:50 ish from the end if you're bothered listening
It's for stats tracking purposes only, nothing to do with the algorithm it was there to make sure they WERE NOT BIASED one way or other...
Elon still thought it was weird it was there.
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How can he discuss code when he's just a business guy?
Oh yes don't want to biased against the Elon Musk political party
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Lol, so either way, either Elon wanted it there and lied about not knowing, or he didn't know, but it's something added since Elon took over, and the engineers felt the need to have a metric just for Elon, to not upset the poor man baby. They don't have one for obama, Biden, trump etc.
You can just imagine how the engineers came about feeling the need to put it in
Elon walks into their office one day all upset "why does no one pay attention to my tweets any more, I have millions of new followers and less activity. Do people hate me. Why do they boo"
And the engineers are like "no daddy (he makes them use this word) people love you, they weren't booing, they were saying boo-urn the establishment down!!"
And I love that whole "it's for stat tracking purposes only" well no it's not just for that. It's so that they can better target/make algorithm changes based on the stats.
It's not like they just sit in a room and see the stats and go "hmm interesting, any way..."
They obviously look at them and say, is elon going to cry today because his tweets aren't popular enough. Let's check the stats. Uh oh, someone else got more likes than him. Let's alter the algorithm.
It's like OCUK store tracking the most popular county where they get purchases. The tracking isn't just for stats, it's so they can make changes, advertise more to big seller county's etc.
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Seems posts about Ukraine are being placed in the misinformation bucket and buried. Nice one Elon.
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NYT is based. I respect them for refusing to pay the Twitter Tax.
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Twitter will end up giving the NYT their blue tick back for free.
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Nah. Musk is too petty for that, and he's addicted to the validation he gets from right wing Twitter. He'll never restore the verification mark unless it's paid for.
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NYT says it won't pay for Twitter. Elon's response. He is such a man child.
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Its interesting that Musks biggest fans on here also think Ukraine should give in.
real shots fired.
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He's like that snotty kid in class who's just got knocked down by a girl - "I never liked her anyway"
Am surprised he hasn't created stink over the White House also not paying for blue ticks.
Saying that, i'm not any one is particularly shocked by what they're finding though
Am surprised he hasn't created stink over the White House also not paying for blue ticks.
Code scrubbing, which is quite funny, and internal references, which is a bit of a no-no for a public repo, in commits is about the only thing i've seen having had a very quick flick through.
Saying that, i'm not any one is particularly shocked by what they're finding though
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I don't think anyone is shocked by that.
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