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It seems like people want to see Musk suffer and so exaggerate the real "burden" put on him with this. 500e6/(24 * 60 * 60)~= 6k tweets per seconds. It's not n

It seems like people want to see Musk suffer and so exaggerate the real "burden" put on him with this. 500e6/(24 * 60 * 60)~= 6k tweets per seconds. It's not nothing, but not that hard to handle either. > it will take Musk considerable time to do an analysis of bots on Twitter, a task requiring a team of researchers who will need to laboriously construct software to review the tweets. ...is just not true. A few engineers can bring up infra to first filter & sample the firehose, and then store only what they need. EDIT: I'd candidly love to know how what I'm saying is completely off base, if downvoters wouldn't mind educating me.

gamblor956 4y ago
6,000 tweets per second is a lot of tweets for a team of humans to analyze. Twitter employs dozens of people to analyze flagged tweets, and they can only handle (relatively) small samples of each day's data. It's not something Musk can do algorithmically or through brute force data analysis, because that sort of superficial analysis would be very inferior to Twitter's very involved process, and Musk would have to demonstrate that the algorithm that he or his team came up with on short notice is more accurate than the process Twitter has been using for several years. Which isn't going to happen. See: pretty much every Musk "first principles" claim ever. Musk will need to hire a lot of people to do this job, but he can't just drag in SpaceX and Tesla employees to do this for him, since he would be (rightfully) sued by the other shareholders of these companies for abusing/misuing company resources. Also, Musk is pretty well known as a horrible boss that likes to badmouth his employees. It's going to be very difficult for him to assemble a team of qualified people to handle this task for him, especially in the time frame he has. You got downvoted for doing the programmer thing of thinking that a very difficult problem can be trivially solved with some light programming, and completely ignoring that people who actually deal with this sort of thing for a living think that this is a very large and difficult task that will take a great deal of effort by a great many people.

gamblor956 4y ago

6,000 tweets per second is a lot of tweets for a team of humans to analyze. Twitter employs dozens of people to analyze flagged tweets, and they can only handle (relatively) small samples of each day's data. It's not something Musk can do algorithmically or through brute force data analysis, because that sort of superficial analysis would be very inferior to Twitter's very involved process, and Musk would have to demonstrate that the algorithm that he or his team came up with on short notice is more accurate than the process Twitter has been using for several years. Which isn't going to happen. See: pretty much every Musk "first principles" claim ever. Musk will need to hire a lot of people to do this job, but he can't just drag in SpaceX and Tesla employees to do this for him, since he would be (rightfully) sued by the other shareholders of these companies for abusing/misuing company resources. Also, Musk is pretty well known as a horrible boss that likes to badmouth his employees. It's going to be very difficult for him to assemble a team of qualified people to handle this task for him, especially in the time frame he has. You got downvoted for doing the programmer thing of thinking that a very difficult problem can be trivially solved with some light programming, and completely ignoring that people who actually deal with this sort of thing for a living think that this is a very large and difficult task that will take a great deal of effort by a great many people.