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Talent? Didn’t know that much talent is required to get the talents to maintain a trillion 140-char records distributed database. Must be the 10,000+ “bot-far

Talent? Didn’t know that much talent is required to get the talents to maintain a trillion 140-char records distributed database. Must be the 10,000+ “bot-farmers” (according to SEC filing).

KptMarchewa 4y ago
It's 280 now. Double the challenge.
winternett 4y ago
I wanted to have faith that Twitter could actually return to it's former glory, before it was a dictatorial nightmare... Twitter literally varies it's timeline every day to simply push what it wants to to everyone, just like Instagram. Literally, I've watched it switch from real time reporting to just a total spam haven that ignores everyone's wishes and pushes out repetitive content and dull posts from people and corps that pay money for visibility. Not even top posts are ranked based by likes or even account popularity (real or even fake followers) any more. Based on what I've observed, it's just whoever pays or spams keywords that ranks first. It's just opinion of course, but I feel like dead Internet is alive and well on Twitter, and even the deal to purchase it is a promotional scheme to keep everyone distracted from the underlying feeling that Twitter is a lifeless shell of it's former self. It eventually gets to the point where you've got to stop logging in because the emphasis on content that has no real value ranks above the real interesting, relevant, and noteworthy stuff anyone posts on there. It's corrupted far too much to go back to being functional, a smoke screen for pocket change behind the scenes. Elon could do better just building something entirely new (opinion again, but I think the people that really use it would agree).
- cuteboy19 4y ago
  I have never seen an authentic hashtag in the trending section. Either its some advertisement or its an obviously astroturfed political campaign.
  - winternett 4y ago
    Or Doja Cat, Kanye, BTS, Politics or whatever random accounts pay to promote or bot to death... sigh
andsoitis 4y ago
a) As a hiring manager (not at Twitter, but at another tech firm), we prefer to have recruiters to help us source and evaluate engineering candidates (instead of doing everything ourselves, given we also have other responsibilities around engineering and building product) b) If you think it doesn't require much talent to run Twitter, then the talent must really really suck at some of the recent competitors who are trying to take on Twitter.
- egberts1 4y ago
  Talent at Twitter is apparently not there, notably not being forthcoming with the inner operation details required for a buyout, unless they do not wish to be bought out, which jn that case is an even sadder form of corporate decline in its intrinsic and inherent value.

Talent? Didn’t know that much talent is required to get the talents to maintain a trillion 140-char records distributed database. Must be the 10,000+ “bot-farmers” (according to SEC filing).

KptMarchewa 4y ago

It's 280 now. Double the challenge.

winternett 4y ago

I wanted to have faith that Twitter could actually return to it's former glory, before it was a dictatorial nightmare... Twitter literally varies it's timeline every day to simply push what it wants to to everyone, just like Instagram. Literally, I've watched it switch from real time reporting to just a total spam haven that ignores everyone's wishes and pushes out repetitive content and dull posts from people and corps that pay money for visibility. Not even top posts are ranked based by likes or even account popularity (real or even fake followers) any more. Based on what I've observed, it's just whoever pays or spams keywords that ranks first. It's just opinion of course, but I feel like dead Internet is alive and well on Twitter, and even the deal to purchase it is a promotional scheme to keep everyone distracted from the underlying feeling that Twitter is a lifeless shell of it's former self. It eventually gets to the point where you've got to stop logging in because the emphasis on content that has no real value ranks above the real interesting, relevant, and noteworthy stuff anyone posts on there. It's corrupted far too much to go back to being functional, a smoke screen for pocket change behind the scenes. Elon could do better just building something entirely new (opinion again, but I think the people that really use it would agree).

cuteboy19 4y ago
I have never seen an authentic hashtag in the trending section. Either its some advertisement or its an obviously astroturfed political campaign.
- winternett 4y ago
  Or Doja Cat, Kanye, BTS, Politics or whatever random accounts pay to promote or bot to death... sigh

andsoitis 4y ago

a) As a hiring manager (not at Twitter, but at another tech firm), we prefer to have recruiters to help us source and evaluate engineering candidates (instead of doing everything ourselves, given we also have other responsibilities around engineering and building product) b) If you think it doesn't require much talent to run Twitter, then the talent must really really suck at some of the recent competitors who are trying to take on Twitter.

egberts1 4y ago
Talent at Twitter is apparently not there, notably not being forthcoming with the inner operation details required for a buyout, unless they do not wish to be bought out, which jn that case is an even sadder form of corporate decline in its intrinsic and inherent value.