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Unlike the majority of comments here, I think its fine & rather quite impressive actually. Doesn't it look like how you would normally experiment to discover mo
by SpacePortKnight 4y ago
Unlike the majority of comments here, I think its fine & rather quite impressive actually. Doesn't it look like how you would normally experiment to discover more about something?
You try out several edge cases, observe the results and learn from it.
Twitter is likely using extensive telemetry to observe the behavior of it's users and is now just running extreme experiments until they find something that shoots up the engagement.
If this doesn't work, I am sure Elon can easily revert this policy and make a statement on how he listened to the people.
- haxiomic 4y agoThis is a great plan if you're working with rocks or particles but these are human beings, once they distrust you it's pretty hard to get that back. Technologists treating human beings as inanimate objects of optimisation captures what I find so disheartening about the trends in our field
- SpacePortKnight 4y agoEthically I agree and yet it'll certainly be interesting if this strategy works. It may bring in new discoveries on how people organize themselves on social media and how a new social media can be created or destroyed.
- haxiomic 4y agoAgreed, results will be interesting either way You’re right of course that this would have been done with strategy in mind