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> By pushing for such an extremely tight deadline, Elon got to see who is actually doing work and who is resting on their laurels. Furthermore, it proved who co
by invalidusernam3 4y ago
> By pushing for such an extremely tight deadline, Elon got to see who is actually doing work and who is resting on their laurels. Furthermore, it proved who could actually perform under extreme pressure.
Very dumb take. It implies that all the engineers at twitter work on the exact same feature at the exact same time, which obviously they don't, which invalidates the rest of this guys argument
- PM_me_your_math 4y agoWhat features though? The color of buttons? Innovation at twitter died 10 years ago. The old team literally accomplished nothing but censorship and banning 500,000 people who didn't agree with their politics.
- nikau 4y agoOr banned 500,000 people to stop twitter going the way of voat.co
- arrsky 4y agoFWIW, here are two useful features released just within the past few months. In July 2022: Unmentioning to leave a conversation entirely, preventing others from mentioning you (not just muting), https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1546555047630159872 https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1546555047630159872 In October 2022: Community Notes (aka Birdwatch), to facilitate crowdsourced clarifications and corrections to misleading tweets, https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes/status/1578004575990202370 https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes/status/157800457599020237.... This uses some intriguing algos to surface 'best' contributions, such as when accounts that often disagree, agree on these, as well as on earned-over-time reputations for reviewers.