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Founding engineer of Twitter discusses what should come next

• cf100clunk 4y ago
  In 2006, Blaine Cook was working at a podcasting company called Odeo when coworker Jack Dorsey pitched the idea for a new social network. Cook was included on the project and became the engineer for what would later that year initially launch as a text messaging service called twttr before adopting the name and website it’s known as today.
• charcircuit 4y ago
  >The timeline is populated chronologically, not by an algorithm, so users see the posts they want and not what the app thinks you will want. I'm surprised seeing an established engineer say this. The switch to algorithms beyond chronological ordering was a data driven decision in the industry. We have the data proving that people get to see what they want less if it's sorted chronologically.