So... if you work for Twitter and then go work somewhere else, Twitter will sue your new employer? That's a stellar recruiting strategy.
Nah, its no good for recruiting, but its not quite as bad as a retention strategy.
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I disagree... follower graph would be pretty important to bootstrap a Twitter like experience. My follower graph on Twitter looks quite different than Instagram or Facebook. The letter also explicitly calls out follower graph and following data which is why I mention it.
They used the followers from IG, not Twitter. Considering who is making this claim and how much they've lied recently, I'd be hesitant to give them the benefit of the doubt. Simply put, that which can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
I'd estimate less than 25% overlap between my social graph on Twitter and Meta so building a account recommendation system based on my graph from Twitter would be mighty useful. Again this was a just a thought experiment based on two temporally related events and specific wording in a letter nothing more. Of course its on them to prove it.
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#94Just put the two in a cage and let's see who the worthiest contender really is...
Lmao. Zuckerberg would beat the ego out of Musk.
My completely uninformed opinion is Zuck looks kinda ripped. Even though Musk is heavier and taller, I think Zuck could take him. But Newsweek, that bastion of factual reporting on objective reality, says London bookies are giving Musk better odds:
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-figh...
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Lmao. Zuckerberg would beat the ego out of Musk.
My completely uninformed opinion is Zuck looks kinda ripped. Even though Musk is heavier and taller, I think Zuck could take him. But Newsweek, that bastion of factual reporting on objective reality, says London bookies are giving Musk better odds: https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-figh...
Is it too late to get Bill Gates or the reanimated corpse of Steve Jobs to enter the fray?
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#96I doubt this hold water, part because commentary that Mera doesn’t even have any ex-Twitter employees on this project, but especially because it’s a reactive lawsuit following the launch and the news it has been a big success.
If Twitter knew what Meta was doing, surely they could have shut this down right away?
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Didn't Twitter open source a large portion of the code base? Seems like that isn't going to help their case.
Nah, they released a bunch of the piping that goes around an ML model, but that's very boilerplate stuff to anyone with python data science experience. It's like if you made calculators and "open sourced" one by releasing the code that reads keypresses and does CPU scheduling. Like yeah, those are things a calculator does but not only is it code everyone else in the business could expect to write themselves in a couple sprints but it's also exactly NOT the magic sauce.
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#100See also: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threat...
Specifically, Meta's response in the Semafor piece: > “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” the source said.
That's a pretty rock solid and straightforward defence. Unsurprising too since Meta has had well a publicized hiring freeze since early last year.