Go Elon

Twitter's operation to prop up left-wing 'influencers' is starting to get exposed. 👀 pic.twitter.com/zO7MsvHVrC

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

What the hell does any of that mean and how does it relate to the thread title?

Sorry I am ignorant of most things Twitter.

What were the number of likes on average before they got Elon'd?

Yeah would have been nice if he had a screen shot comparison for reference.

Ag In Ok said:

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What were the number of likes on average before they got Elon'd?

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This. It's worthless without a comparison

And he's fired the CEO, CFO and CLA

the purge has begun and it's glorious

Looks like her average like stats were around 1200-2000ish. so yeah pretty good drop

For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

Sarge 91 said:

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What the hell does any of that mean and how does it relate to the thread title?

Sorry I am ignorant of most things Twitter.

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One of the theories of the twitter algorithms is that certain nodes of left thinking personalities were getting artificial/fake likes, retweets, and trending bonuses to make the opinions feel more widely accepted and 'factual' than what organic, natural engagement would support.

If a person sees 100k people "liking" something, that person is more inclined to "like" it as well.

If 99.5k of the 100k were "faked" and just the twitter servers putting up a fake number for users to see, then we would have no way of knowing what was actually trending and instead being shown a curated listed of topics that twitter decided to put as the 'trending' list. All of those "tweets you may like" is not an actual list of things you may like, it's a list of things twitter wants you to like.


And it goes the other way too. If a topic and tweet were very popular but goes against twitter's stated views, it would be suppressed in such a way to limit how it much joe blow user would see.


the TL;DR: Twitter showed its users what it wanted to show its users and would slant and bias "rigththink" upwards and more widely and suppress "wrongthink".

That Brooklyn Dad loser constantly got at least 4,000 likes on his posts in a matter of hours. It's widely known he's a paid Democrat shill and most of his followers are bots.

I bet part of Elon's plan is to go after the people he just fired to claw back a bunch of the money he paid since their financials and actual human users are fraudulent and get billions of his purchase price refunded to him in judgements.

"Fraud in the inducement" is a very real cause of action

Maroon Dawn said:

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And he's fired the CEO, CFO and CLA

the purge has begun and it's glorious

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Its what a first hours of a DeSantis presidency should look like.

Or a GOP Hill if they have the clout.

ScapeGOAT said:

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That Brooklyn Dad loser constantly got at least 4,000 likes on his posts in a matter of hours. It's widely known he's a paid Democrat shill and most of his followers are bots.

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Which is why I also don't understand what the OP is saying. These leftists are still getting tons of likes.

RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

dmart90 said:

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

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No, but giving his tesla engineers unfettered access to the heart and guts of their servers and source code would likely shut off nefarious processes pretty quickly.

Predmid said:

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Sarge 91 said:

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What the hell does any of that mean and how does it relate to the thread title?

Sorry I am ignorant of most things Twitter.

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One of the theories of the twitter algorithms is that certain nodes of left thinking personalities were getting artificial/fake likes, retweets, and trending bonuses to make the opinions feel more widely accepted and 'factual' than what organic, natural engagement would support.

If a person sees 100k people "liking" something, that person is more inclined to "like" it as well.

If 99.5k of the 100k were "faked" and just the twitter servers putting up a fake number for users to see, then we would have no way of knowing what was actually trending and instead being shown a curated listed of topics that twitter decided to put as the 'trending' list. All of those "tweets you may like" is not an actual list of things you may like, it's a list of things twitter wants you to like.


And it goes the other way too. If a topic and tweet were very popular but goes against twitter's stated views, it would be suppressed in such a way to limit how it much joe blow user would see.


the TL;DR: Twitter showed its users what it wanted to show its users and would slant and bias "rigththink" upwards and more widely and suppress "wrongthink".

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Yep, as confirmed by The Social Dilemma which interviews people that actually developed these platforms.

Recommend everyone watch it.

You would have had to use Twitter awhile to pick-up on it, but the number of likes some of these politicians got for their low effort Tweets never made any sense

This whole situation is so amazing.

So much of the perceived momentum and support for all of the left's causes and their "stars" will likely be shot down now. All other social media entities will also now seriously become suspect. Mind control for the easily influenced, dumbed-down masses is a thing. No frigging wonder the left is so upset.

I don't think we realize yet how big this could be for our country.

The question is how pervasive through the code and configuration are the bot algos. Pending the setup Twitter could trash the code to remove the bias before his engineers could review. How deep does their source code archive go?

titan said:

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Maroon Dawn said:

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And he's fired the CEO, CFO and CLA

the purge has begun and it's glorious

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Its what a first hours of a DeSantis presidency should look like.

Or a GOP Hill if they have the clout.

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Which makes it all that more important for Twitter to be unbiased. So there can be counter argument to the inevitable fake headlines to hamstring desantis.

Garrelli 5000 said:

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How deep does their source code archive go?

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Should go all the way back to the beginning, that's how version control usually works.

I agree and understand. My point being how difficult would it be for the historical source to IRS laptop hard drive.

CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fired today >>> https://t.co/rFjAZotlH4

— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) October 28, 2022

dmart90 said:

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

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Well no duh, but if Elon is firing everyone who is running the bot campaign and Elon now has access to all the information to verify bot activity. It would make sense for the bots to decrease which was the point.

johnnyblaze36 said:

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CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fired today >>> https://t.co/rFjAZotlH4

— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) October 28, 2022

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Smart.

Some of these people were just doing their jobs, seems extreme to fire an entire engineering team. Maybe there's culture rot and that was the simplest way to fix it.

dmart90 said:

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

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Odds are the 'bot' stuff is all a sub-program or set of code.

Wouldn't be that hard to turn off, actually.

Or maybe algos that give certain blue checkmarked voices of the party likes automatically when they post?

ntxVol said:

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Some of these people were just doing their jobs, seems extreme to fire an entire engineering team. Maybe there's culture rot and that was the simplest way to fix it.

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Data engineering team was likely at the hart of controlling the content and censorship.

ntxVol said:

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Some of these people were just doing their jobs, seems extreme to fire an entire engineering team. Maybe there's culture rot and that was the simplest way to fix it.

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99% of them donate and vote for Dems. They sure were doing their jobs. Fortunately they won't be suppressing truth any longer.

dmart90 said:

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

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Yes there is. It is the send button on the email to the data engineering team.

Had to be done. They had a choice - quit / become a whistle blower Or be complicit in political bias and cover up.

Decisions have consequences.

These were data engineers at Twitter not janitors. They were likely making 150k+ easily and got a severance package. If they are good at their job they can go find another job in about 5 hours.

ntxVol said:

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Some of these people were just doing their jobs, seems extreme to fire an entire engineering team. Maybe there's culture rot and that was the simplest way to fix it.

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You nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

titan said:

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Maroon Dawn said:

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And he's fired the CEO, CFO and CLA

the purge has begun and it's glorious

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Its what a first hours of a DeSantis presidency should look like.

Or a GOP Hill if they have the clout.

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This !!!!

Trump failed to do that to Obama's cronies. Thats hard to forgive. DeSantis 2024