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- Open sourcing this - Lists as tabs - _Heavily_ reduced spam - Can look at Twitter without logging in I'm likely missing some other obvious/uncontroversially good changes. I still use Twitter and plan to continue using it. I am satisfied with most of his changes.
The spam comment is interesting. I had a sharp uptick in the number of spam messages after the acquisition.
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Don't you have a choice.. to not engage with it? If you didn't like it then assuming the metrics system is working correctly, this would be negative feedback to the ML model, causing said content to not be shown in the future.
Couple problems: 1. Actively supplying negative feedback is sometimes hidden behind secondary menus, making it much higher friction compared to just...scrolling past. So most users don't spend the effort. Even with a dislike button, it's unclear what the system is learning. It can't know that I don't like this particular video because it's a conspiracy theory, and to stop showing me those. These platforms often don't…
They just don't want to.
It's disappointing the comments are so obsessed with the political angle to this that there's a total lack of appreciation (or discussion) of opening up the most influential social media platform in the world.
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Judging by the many "issues" already, it might have been a bad idea to release on a friday, though.
I'm not connecting the dots. Why is it bad to release on Friday?
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Elon is addressing this in the Twitter Space right now. "It definitely shouldn't be dividing people into Republican and Democrats; that makes no sense[...] you've identified something we should be getting rid of right away."
Does it make sense to divide people into Elon and not Elon?
I get way to much random crap now, promoted tweets, "thing that might interest me", users that seem to never get on my feed etc.
Twitter seems to go in the direction of all other social media, feeds that are 100% digital crack with no way to control your media diet.
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American's lax attitude towards cultivating more than two parties is literally killing the republic from the inside.
In some other countries the different interest groups sort themselves into two factions after being elected but I don't know that it is really that different in practice.
Ironically, America has one of the most open political systems. You register as one party or the other and vote in primaries. This has lead to a huge variety of people replacing hated mainstream politicians. That's way more than you can say for many other countries.
It's disappointing the comments are so obsessed with the political angle to this that there's a total lack of appreciation (or discussion) of opening up the most influential social media platform in the world.
But really, if people respond to Twitter's actions politically, that response exists within a context that was certainly influenced by Twitter's prior actions.