Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by systemvoltage on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:53PM (#31047425)

One can equally argue that opens sourcing Twitter algorithm and building trust would bring incalculable number of new users, have a profound impact on their ad business and not to mention, cut down their competitor's moat. People will flock to Twitter like bees. Ad revenue + subscription would skyrocket.

So, it can go either way and can be argued either way.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tayo42 on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:55PM (#31047909)

> opens sourcing Twitter algorithm

People need to stop saying this. It's nonsense. Or maybe keep saying it so we know your clueless about how anything works that your commenting on

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by JumpCrisscross on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:06PM (#31048030)

> It's nonsense

Why? (Honest question.)

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tayo42 on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:17PM (#31048627)

which part do you want open sourced? timelines are generated after going through machine learning and then multiple services. even then, some of the infrastructure limits what you see in the end.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

> Unfortunately, Haplo has its limits. Since we try to pull every single Tweet ID in a conversation every time a conversation is loaded in real-time, this is potentially an unbounded amount of data. We’ve found that if our platform tries to load more than a certain number of entries from our cache at once, our cache request latency will spike, and we begin to time-out on a significant fraction of read requests. Because of this, there is a limit of thousands of Tweets per conversation tree in this cache.

even just showing an ad is a ton work has a bunch of services involved

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

Other stuff that I think explains the complexity

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

there's no single algorithm, its a bunch of parts coming together from hundreds of engineers and multiple services.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by burnished on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:43PM (#31048328)

Also genuine, why would a person believe that would happen? The foremost thing that comes to mind is they'd be giving something of great value and receiving nothing in return.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by VirusNewbie on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:11PM (#31048070)

You think there is no such thing as OSS models?

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by pbreit on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:49PM (#31048379)

Please explain. I can easily envision much more transparency on how the feed works.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tayo42 on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:02PM (#31048490)

Transparency i can agree with, i think twitter does a horrible job at that. especially explaining the rumored shadow bans and stuff. But i think thats different then open source code

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by bandyaboot on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:49PM (#31048383)

I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people who pay attention to such things.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by woodruffw on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:57PM (#31047475)

That’s correct. Which is why “fiduciary duty” arguments aren’t very good.

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