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Sep 6, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Almost 3 hours into Musk/Twitter hearing and I actually laughed out loud this exchange:
Musk lawyer (re: whistleblower complaint): one might wonder why we didn't discover this in due diligence .. they hid it, that's why
Judge: we'll never know.. there was no due diligence
Musk's lawyer is now arguing that there was in fact due diligence because he attended meetings titled "diligence"
Apr 27, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Another day, another Congressional hearing with social media companies. This time, policy execs from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee about algorithms judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/algor…
In opening statement, @BostonJoan points to YouTube's algorithm and says that it's "difficult to impossible" to get out of the rabbit hole once you fall in
Feb 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Twitter plans to start testing something that looks *a lot* like groups.
Twitter also mentioned that it's exploring tipping and something called "super follows"
Jan 8, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Good morning from Twitter, get ready to hear a lot about Twitter topics #ces
New from Twitter: an upcoming feature will let you control who can reply to your tweet as you compose it, there will be the ability to limit replies to followers, people who are mentioned in the tweet, or no replies at all