By Monday afternoon, engineers were able to send out a code that would allow Musk’s tweets to bypass the algorithm and boost his posts by a factor of 1,000 by using a tool called the “power user multiplier,” which only has been applied to Musk, per the report.
If this keeps up much longer I might start thinking that turning over the entire economy to stupid crybaby welfare billionaires is a notch or two below Best Idea of All Time.
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Elon was asked about the accusation on twitter, and he replied.
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Musk replied: "The 'source' of the bogus Platformer article is a disgruntled employee who had been on paid time off for months, had already accepted a job at Google and felt the need to poison the well on the way out. Twitter will be taking legal action against him."
Yo, Elon, saying the engineer was biased against you because of your performance as Twitter owner isn’t the defense you think it is. Pointing out the employee had already been hired by Google also isn’t the attack you think it is.
The thing is the original story had a specific example of Super Bowl tweets which is pretty believable and
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The CEO tweeted Friday that multiple major media sources had incorrectly reported his tweets had been boosted above normal levels. He said a review of his tweets over the past six months showed the reports were false.
Yeah, I’m going to have to see the data to believe that.
Also, I wonder if Elon is even right about the leaker, twitter is a shitshow, I’m sure there are lots of former and current engineers who have a similar “bias” against Elon.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye. <a href="https://t.co/NyHceWvoDl">pic.twitter.com/NyHceWvoDl</a></p>— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) <a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1585454026098966529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Since October 27 2022 Cullen Crawford has continued to tweet
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I'm pretty sure if you do nothing, that will happen. With no effort required
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Meanwhile Musk continues to get into fights on twitter, meaning it won’t be long till Twitter is the place you go to pay $8 to argue with Elon Musk until he bans you, a bit like a dunk tank at a local fair, only this one benefits Saudi investors.
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While I am no fanboy of Elon Musk, the annoyance of the haters does bring a smile to my face, as Elon regains the questionable position of the world's richest man once more.
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In late stage capitalism millionaires use twitter and their parasocial relationship with fans to ask for free labor to make their chocolate bars look better than other millionaire’s chocolate bars at the small business destroying billionaire owned big box store.
I don't know who "MrBeast" is, and even better, I don't care.
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Originally posted at The BBC
A Twitter employee has appealed to Elon Musk on the platform to ask whether he had been sacked. In a tweet to the firm's chief executive, Halli Thorleifsson said: "Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not". ...
Shortly after that exchange Mr Thorleifsson said that Twitter's Human Resources department had contacted him and said that he had been fired.
A site reliability engineer tasked with shutting down free access to Twitter's API made a "bad configuration change" that "basically broke the Twitter API," Platformer reported a current employee as saying.
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Twitter owner Elon Musk addressed Monday's outage in a tweet posted after the social-network was back up and running. In a reply to investor Marc Andreessen, Musk said: "A small API change had massive ramifications. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite."
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Experts and employees have warned for some time that the massive headcount cuts could affect the reliability of the social-media platform.
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share plummeted.
It’s a bit smarmy of me to criticize them for waiting so long between releases. They didn’t do it on purpose, now, did they?
Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
Dated April 2000.
There were only like 3 things to read on the internet in 2000. If Elon wasn't reading Joel on Software, is he even really a tech bro? (no)
On April 1st check marks will no longer signify verified users, but those who have paid their monthly $8 due. This in no way will turn into a cluster fuck of fake accounts and AI generated content.
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