twitter_anon

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by twitter_anon 4y ago
Existing equity was converted to cash at $54.20/share, but will still be paid out on the existing vesting schedule. It's a carrot, insofar as it is promised future money, but it's a decaying carrot. Edit: Yes, the proportion
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by twitter_anon 6y ago
> Do you believe the same to be true for Facebook as well? I have no idea about Facebook. I barely even use it so all my information is second-hand. > Why is Twitter encouraging outrage-engagement via the (somewhat filtered) Trending
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by twitter_anon 6y ago
That is most certainly not the way engineering at Twitter works.
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by twitter_anon 6y ago
This is a popular sentiment on HN, but it oversimplifies the situation. Engagement, in the aggregate, does not pay the bills. Advertisers paying us to sponsor tweets does. Advertisers will only do that if paying to sponsor tweets results
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by twitter_anon 7y ago
It hasn't been until recently. We are currently locking down all internal systems based on the minimum necessary accesses for various systems. We should have done this a lot sooner.
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by twitter_anon 7y ago
Some of us do, as we come from (or work with people who come from) states that will perpetrate violence against dissidents. Unfortunately, there still aren't enough of us. We're trying to change that.
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by twitter_anon 7y ago
> The problem is that companies want the flamebait and toxic content to drive enragement engagement ad impressions No, we really don't. In fact, we have mechanisms in place to keep ads away from certain categories of content. Do
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by twitter_anon 7y ago
> Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down. I'd like to clarify wha