I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

Post by interleave » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC

andrewingram wrote: post #27

interleave wrote: post #23

imho Nikita did a good job and I wish he stayed on. Twitter is 100% better now than a year ago. For one, I haven't gotten a single bullshit click-farm fake-ass sock-puppet follower in months. Secondly, I see very few low-effort reply guys lately, human or otherwise.

Are you paying? I see an endless stream of AI or bot-like posts in the replies of basically every tweet I see with any traction, but i'm not a paying user so I may have the bad version of the platform.

Post by largbae » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

numpad0 wrote: post #279

largbae wrote: post #136

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The new automatic translation is something that I would like to see all communities adopt. You can now follow folks who speak any language and each of you interact using your native language with no friction, just a tiny note of what language each message was translated from.

> each of you interact using your native language with no friction I wouldn't be so sure about that... Translations contain a lot of telltales and signals - even perfect translations end up as translation-specific dialect separate from natural speeches - and there are significant average content quality differences between cultures. With these signals + differences combined creating a much tighter closed loop than be…

Post by kilroy123 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.

Post by sceptic123 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #277

flakiness wrote: post #183

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I felt the same before then realized that what I missed was my youth. Plenty of time to kill. No real privacy need. Being a night owl with little hangover, etc. etc. Not saying that's you. Just cannot help going down the memory lane.

It's partly being younger but it's also partly that things were actually better.

Post by 2PqboPPmKegvanx » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.