I thought they had sacked the entirety of the Trust & Safety team. Especially considered I got added to something like 30 spam DM threads over the last week, and that reporting them did exactly nothing.
Crypto bots are also out of control.
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#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what conspiracies is he peddling?
Off the top of my head: He was peddling the conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a spurned lover. He had to quickly walk that one back by deleting the reply and pretending it never happened.
No, he said "more than meets the eye" because of contradicting news reports in the medias early on when the story broke, with many unknowns and incoherencies remaining today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/miguel-almaguer-remains...
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why wouldn't Twitter (or similarly large companies) have open-sourced their a/b testing suite? It's not like the math there is proprietary. I mean, I'm sure the parameters to the math are proprietary. But the basic math seems simple enough.
If you're not using an off the shelf one, chances are it's tightly integrated to your application framework. Trying to tease out the pieces that aren't coupled to Twitter's User class is probably more effort than it's worth
And this is sadly true about almost every good A/B testing system out there. They always involve tooling that has to exactly fit your stack, and it's really tough to make a general purpose product that would offer anywhere near the same value.
To some extent, you grow your company and codebase around your A/B testing system, not the other way around, because it has to slot into so many places: deployment, testing, front-end, back-end, analytics, monitoring, etc. Almost no two companies share the same stacks across all of those dimensions, and an A/B testing system that doesn't hook in tightly to every one of those systems is not complete. This is why I always get a bit scared when people think they can just use one of those "drop-in" services and be done with it: yeah, great, you can now fiddle your JavaScript from some third-party website, but you're going to have a big project ahead of you passing group assignments out to all of the different systems that will need to know about them, and almost guaranteed some part of your stack will not have a library available from the service you picked so you're going to be writing your own REST wrapper, and dammit they don't document that API very well and it seems to be responding differently since the last update, and man it'd be a lot easier if I could just pipe results straight from my own service into Big query rather than running a daily user export, and damn, their dashboard doesn't let me set exclusion criteria on my own metrics, I have to send activation events now, and etc, etc. By the end you've basically built your own A/B test system from scratch, you've just paid someone else to do the "int myGroup = Random.next()" call, which is the easiest part to build.
Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation
#264Sorry, but no. I'm currently disgusted with Twitter's new management and their treatment of developers. It's the fediverse for me, thanks.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's only weird, if you attempt to parse it with a straight face. This is some B-grade best-effort spin on what has been uncontrolled chaos with predictably awful effects. The only thing keeping Twitter rolling is the majority percentage of the casual niche user in non-political and non-technical niches, who haven't been paying attention to the chaos; and who by virtue of being casual users are not notably surprised…
Twitter has never been more fun, useful, and engaging for me. I signed up for an account after years of refusing to do so after elon took over
What specific communities have gotten more fun for you since Elon took over and what is making them more fun? Genuinely curious.
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#266TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
So banning right wing users for having right wing opinions are OK… But banning antifa-accounts, that is accounts held by people taking part in month long riots and looting and political real-world violence… that is bad? Is this satire? Is this an honestly held opinion? Or am I missing something?
> Sp banning right wing users for having right wing opinions are OK… Maybe! Being part of a group that also holds certain opinions isn't really relevant to whether expressing those opinions violates a policy. But which opinions did you have in mind? Here have an extremely relevant tweet. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...
"LOL no...no not those views"
pure gold
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#268If I had the time and resources, I would build a Twitter clone and focus on just getting journalists, editors, reporters, etc on the platform. This is a powerful community that is quite established on Twitter, but I suspect they would be willing to migrate. Maybe something like, Manuscript Wishlist or QueryTracker, but specifically with a Twitter vibe.
Sounds noble, but how would you earn their trust?
Why would someone choose you over Musk?
How would you ensure that in 5 years you will not sell out for big $$$
Not trying to be a troll, just genuinely asking as the answers may help someone who actually has the resources/time
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From the same first quote - none of our policies have changed, just policy enforcement has changed. Isn't policy enforcement a part of a separate policy? The policy for policy enforcement? They really wanted to be able to say "the policy hasn't changed." This is a bigger stretch than a taffy pull.
policy vs Procedure. you have a procedure for the policy, thus procedures can change but the policy is the same. policy's are goals, procedures are how those goals are met, and given the wide and subjective nature of all Big Tech policies, changing in procedures are more import and impactful than changes in policy, and the procedures are never open to public review
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Problem in the long run is that it doesn't matter whether or not Twitter believes they are hateful. Heck, it doesn't even matter if the person you're responding to thinks they are hateful. For Musk to not lose gobs and gobs of money, it only matters whether advertisers, in their sole estimation, consider those people hateful. The guys with the nine figure ad budgets will almost certainly fall on the "cautious" side o…
> The only thing that will help here is finding small, less PR minded brands or businesses to replace the players in the nine figure club. My partner runs a small business that spends a few million on ads each year. Why would she take the risk (and it is a huge risk) of advertising on Twitter when Facebook, Google etc. give her the confidence and results her business depends on. Smaller businesses are far less likely…
> My partner runs a small business that spends a few million on ads each year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think a company with an ad budget of a few million is a "small business" anymore.