Social Media Companies: Tell it to Earth

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How much longer is Twitter going to last?
	A few weeks
	A few months
	A few years
	About as long as the rest of humanity

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

I AM GRANDO posted:

Did he ever appoint someone else to run the company like he said he would?

He only said that because he was being sued for not paying enough attention to Tesla.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2023 01:57

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 06:34

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Probably the fact that the purchase page for Twitter Blue doesn't say "As purchased by Stephen King!"

# ¿ Apr 24, 2023 04:35

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Kith posted:

It's effectively Twitter with more moderation and a significantly more airtight privacy policy.

It only has more moderation because musk fired twitter's moderation teams. As bluesky currently is, there's no way to block people so the couple nazis that got in are having a run of it.

On the other hand, the lack of a block lets people bully matty g

duz fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Apr 28, 2023

# ¿ Apr 28, 2023 15:01

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Main Paineframe posted:

That might explain it for anyone else, but not for Jack Dorsey. The guy spent something like seven years as CEO of Twitter, and more than a dozen years sitting on its board of directors. He was involved with Twitter in various roles from its founding in 2006 until he cut all his ties with it in the early 2020s. If he really thought people wouldn't be lovely to each other in the closed beta, that goes beyond "naive" and into "did this motherfucker learn anything at all from Twitter?".

Jack personally intervened to prevent Nazis like Richard Spencer getting kicked off Twitter.
Jack learned plenty from running Twitter, just not the things we would have liked him to have learned.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2023 21:11

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

X: The Everything Not In Europe App

# ¿ May 28, 2023 17:57

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Young Freud posted:

For the first day of Pride month, Matt Walsh thought he could be extra cruel and stream his transphobic documentary "What Is A Woman?" on Twitter, only to find that it was flagged for hate speech. Supposedly, there was a behind the scenes deal between Twitter and the Daily Wire to do this, but it looks like it got pulled regardless.

Elon's solution was to make it so you only see it if someone you follow shares it. Then he shared it.

Morroque posted:

It's strange. It is not like Twitter ran their own translation department, so it was probably another external service they were being invoiced for, which the new management decided not to pay. I would have to wonder how long it was that Twitter was stiffing them on it, given it lasted this long.

... but at the same point, when they published the algorithm's source code, the language of a given post was a key point of categorization. That implies language detection is part of the process, which likely requires some same part of the translation toolkit, which might not have happened in-house.

I'm just wondering what else might be broken now. A lot of things, obviously, but I'm just anticipating the knock-on-effects which Musk is obviously blind to.

Looks like it might have been broken accidentally since no one left knows what they're doing or has someone who can check their code

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 15:29

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

I AM GRANDO posted:

So they were dead the whole time?

They lost contact 90 minutes into the journey, so...

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 22:24

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

It's like RSS but more complicated.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2023 17:29

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Shrecknet posted:

if you have two accounts, one JANE NORMALLADY and one MISTRESS SEXCREEP you don't log in to one and see the other. they're tied (ideally) to different emails and never intersected before today. why would Facebook merge then now?

she probably just posted horny on main and made a dumb excuse

Naw, ever since they implemented the real name policy, they've been shits about it.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2023 02:19

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cat botherer posted:

I'm mercifully not an expert on CSAM, but the hashes at least would be different if one makes any changes whatsoever to the data.

IDing visual similarity would make it easy to catch, but that is also quite computationally expensive. I would highly doubt any social media company makes a general practice of doing that (which is bad, but that's the society we live in). The really damning thing here is how long it took to take down after all those reports, when they ban users for far lesser things all the time. And then reinstating it.

Microsoft has a tech called PhotoDNA that they provide to ICMEC so that images and videos can be hashed in a way that is supposed to survive changes to the file.
Companies can get access to a blackbox / API that they can pass batches of hashes to to check if the materials are known or not.
The company that Twitter used to be using sounds like it combines the PhotoDNA database with other databases to catch more materials than a single database alone.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 15:29

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haveblue posted:

He's probably in violation of a bunch of ordinances now, so it goes away we hope

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 22:52

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Guavanaut posted:

Literally stood outside someone's house yelling "fight me bro" like a some drunk rear end in a top hat in an 80s movie.

Or lying about doing so and thinking it makes him look cool.

He was actually in Ohio because he is an incredible loser.
https://www.threads.net/@elonmusksjet/post/Cv7LYg4uctQ

# ¿ Aug 15, 2023 15:47

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small butter posted:

Does he want an alleged rapist to push Twitter?

Hardly the first one he's promoted.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 21:25

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dr_rat posted:

So do the three of the seven banks that have the agreement just own the vast majority of the stock, as it seems there just unnecessarily putting themselves at the mercy of the other four who would of probably and now definitely are aware of that.

Like this just seems like piling bad decision on bad decision.

Yes, they own 70% of the financed portion.
There is no stock now that Twitter is private, just debt.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2023 15:04

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PhazonLink posted:

does inserting spaces between letters really bypass censor systems?

seems like we have the stupdiest timeline where the Shunter2horpe problem is still a thing, but is also trivially easy to bypass.

It looks like it bypasses whatever is still working at twitter.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 21:30

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FlamingLiberal posted:

The specific issue with TikTok is that the Chinese government apparently has back door access to the app and can potentially do nefarious things because of it

It was discussed for awhile today in D&D but I could see US TikTok just getting shut down instead of sold

They probably should've passed a law banning any company from doing those nefarious things instead of just telling this one company to sell to an American instead.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:03

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

The law they passed should probably have done that instead of just forcing TikTok to sell itself to an American.
The EU managed to pass laws about user PII having to stay in the EU.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 21:44

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reignonyourparade posted:

I'm Pretty sure there are in fact laws about that but there is significant doubt about tiktok following them because of particularities of its corporate structure.

Oh man, maybe they should have been taken to court instead of having a law written to force them to sell to an American.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 23:06

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

If it did, that would be the first time a call-in campaign effected legislation.

# ¿ May 8, 2024 18:14

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 06:34

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whydirt posted:

What? This is either naive, cynical, or both. Call-in, write-in, etc drives effect legislation quite often

Hyperbole is often used for comedic purposes.

# ¿ May 9, 2024 00:34

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