NEW: A wide swath of Twitter's trust & safety team had access to content moderation/enforcement tools frozen last week. Usually, hundreds of people on the team could remove posts w/misinfo, hate speech etc. It's now down to 15 people. Scoop w/@KurtWagner8 @daveyalba @EdLudlow
15 is effectively zero already for a site that large and active.
I'm terrible at mental arithmetic so here's a question for anybody reading this. What percentage of problematic tweets could those period look at in a 24 hour period? Keep in mind - they are doing shifts. If it's 8 hour shifts that's five people each shift.
My wild guess is they are checking 0.000001% of the tweets in question. Should there be more zeros? Anyway - it's just a wild guess.
They will inevitably only look at tweets that either get mass reported (read: people that have pissed off a 4chan brigade) or at complaints that come with credible legal threats from bluechecks.
No such thing. You'll just get lower and lower quality ads with increasingly aggressive scam links. But in the end, I predict Twitter's problem will be the sheer volume of ad-shit in the interface, not an absence of it.
I hope Elon fires them all, turn Twitter into a shithole no advertiser would want to touch.
15 is effectively zero already for a site that large and active.
I'm terrible at mental arithmetic so here's a question for anybody reading this. What percentage of problematic tweets could those period look at in a 24 hour period? Keep in mind - they are doing shifts. If it's 8 hour shifts that's five people each shift.
My wild guess is they are checking 0.000001% of the tweets in question. Should there be more zeros? Anyway - it's just a wild guess.
It's essentially like when FB had one content moderator for the whole of Africa.
They will inevitably only look at tweets that either get mass reported (read: people that have pissed off a 4chan brigade) or at complaints that come with credible legal threats from bluechecks.
No such thing. You'll just get lower and lower quality ads with increasingly aggressive scam links. But in the end, I predict Twitter's problem will be the sheer volume of ad-shit in the interface, not an absence of it.
Banner ads inside the popup ads on sponsored content masquerading as legit tweets :thonk: