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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by goosedragons on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:24AM (#33704572)
They had over a thousand moderators. So maybe your estimate of how many people is required is a bit off.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by animitronix on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:51AM (#33705737)
And they absolutely sucked at it. Good riddance to a useless cost center.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by donkeyd on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:33AM (#33706193)
There was a Twitter thread (ironically) on the front page recently where a Reddit founder explained why anyone will always suck at it. I recommend looking it up.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by abirch on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:16AM (#33706669)
You need to pay for content moderates to prevent lawsuits. Lawsuits are very expensive but less so when you say we had thousands of people working on it.

It looks like you can post entire movies to 2 Minutes per clip onto Twitter right now. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/users-uploading-entire-movies...

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by PeterisP on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:51AM (#33707828)
It's just evidence that a thousand moderators (plus many, many engineers for automated moderation systems to reduce the load) is still nowhere near enough to not suck at moderation on Twitter scale.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fnord123 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:39AM (#33715648)
Then the question remains what the other 5000 people were doing.
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