Elon Musk but Twitter, 445 billion dollars and ever since
the purchase it's been kind of shady.
There's been things going on behind the scenes and nobody
knows about. There's been tweets sent from
Elan that are cryptic. There has been things that Elon
is done that have really made people mad, like letting
controversial figures back onto the platform that have been
banned and kicked off for a while.
But now we have the first official statement from Twitter
itself from the company, from Twitter to point, Oh, this is
from Twitter Inc, blog and I'm going to read you some of it and
we're going to talk about it a little bit.
I want you to bring up some points if you can in the
comments of your podcast app. If you have comments on there,
let me know what you think about this stuff because I think it's
an important step for Ilan and for the future of Twitter.
So here it is, the title of it is Twitter 2.0, our continued
commitment to the public conversation.
Okay, so that that alone says, okay, we're going to be helping
out the people in the Conversation, we're going to
commit to you and this is this is our new statement.
So it says Twitter's mission is to promote and protect the
public conversation to be the Town Square of the internet.
We've always understood that to reach this goal.
We must give everyone the power to create and share ideas and
information instantly. Without barriers, today, we are
a new company embarking on a new chapter, but our steadfast
commitment to this Mission has not changed.
In fact, we are better positioned to realize their
ambitions. It's than ever before.
And they go on to say, we've always understood that our
business and revenue are interconnected with our mission.
They rely on each other brand, safety is only possible when
human safety is the top priority, all of this remains
true today. So let's take a step back and go
over what they're seeing here. And we got to this paragraph.
In particular just recently, a lot of big-name huge ad Spenders
Left the platform. They didn't know what's going
on. They don't know what's going to
go on with Twitter and the next month, two months, three months,
four months, six months a year, possibly.
So they said we're going to step back a little bit.
We're going to, we're going to pause our ad spend on Twitter
and then we're going to see where this goes.
You know, maybe maybe he'll on drives it into the ground, who
knows? That's what these people are
thinking, you know, the ad Spenders, they don't know what's
going to happen. So took all the money away and
then Ilan, according to the financial times.
X head called up. And also talked with numerous
people in the the large corporations, ask them why they
took their money out and then he yelled at them according to the
financial times. So of course this is sort of I
think this is damage control. I think this is what they're
doing. They're like hey we need to have
a corporate facing blog post about damage control you know?
Because if Ilan has been doing these things and driving away
advertisers, there's no way they're going to make the money
that they used to make it if he saw the numbers.
Before the buyout. And he's like, okay, we can make
some money with this. That sounds great.
I'm gonna buy this thing and then he buys it and then
immediately all the money like half the money goes away.
Now, he has to play catch-up, yes to do, damage control and I
think that's what this second paragraph in the third paragraph
are going to pertain to. So let's talk about this, third
paragraph, and I'll read it out to you, so, you can get a better
understanding of where Twitter is coming from, in the next next
phase of Twitter 2.0 and this is where it gets a little bit dicey
for Twitter because I think they're doing damage control on
this next paragraph. So here it is in.
This is from the Twitter blog. What has changed however is our
approach to experimentation. As you've seen over the past
several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing.
We believe that this open and transparent approach to
Innovation is healthy as it enables us to move faster and
gather user feedback in real-time, we believe that a
service of this importance will benefit from feedback, Scale
that there is value in being open about our experiments and
what we are learning. We do all of this work with one
goal in mind to improve Twitter for our customers Partners in
the people who use it across the world, okay?
Now let's take a step back. This is getting interesting is
getting fun so they say what has changed?
You know, we're just testing things out in the open.
Now the normal way for software development and testing is to
test things in a small group then, In that group, The expand
the group more, and then have the engineers in between fix
things and tweak things, and then eventually you to release
it to the public, right? There's a release schedule for a
reason. People have been doing this for
a very long time. Now, if Twitter was actually
doing an open testing schedule, they would have said, so in the,
in the future, in the beginning of all of this stuff, because if
you're doing that to your user base, you have to announce it to
them like, Hey, we're going to be doing these certain And
please don't get upset by them. We're going to be testing some
things out. We understand that you know
there's going to be some things that will break but it's for the
better just trust us. It's easy to communicate that
it's easy to communicate that and as a web developer myself,
I've been developing software apps websites for the last 25,
30 years. And there's been no instance
where out a live product like Twitter, especially with
millions and millions of daily users that you would ever test
anything in an Open environment and I'm not Elon Musk, right?
And Elon might be onto something here where you test everything
out in the open and it's a new way to develop things which is
totally cool. If it works and if it does work,
that would be great. But if you're an Advertiser, the
people that Elon relies on, for all of his money coming in to
Twitter, you look at this, as some sort of weird experiment,
and something that would shake up the platform and something,
where people on the platform that are already on there,
they're seeing this Disruption. And you might get a little bit
spooked by all of this. Now, as a developer myself, I
wouldn't personally do this. I would, of course, test these
systems in the background to a small test.
Make it bigger, make it bigger, release it to the public.
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of course, if you're an early phase startup, which Elan thinks
Twitter 2.0 is and that's what he's running it.
As you move really fast, you try things out and you break things,
and then when you break things, you fix him.
And I've been part of startups before, I've been part of many
successful startups and in that time, when I'm building things
in the very beginning of these startups, we try some stuff.
We try some things that have never been tried before.
We Try some things that aren't in the industry that we're in
and see if they catch on. If they don't, we can them and
we change them. So that's what happened with the
blue check mark, you know, with the 8 dollar check mark.
I think that's what happened is that they were trying something
new out and with the millions and millions of daily active
users, it got out of hand and they realize real quick.
This is not a good idea, we can't just do this with no way
of differentiating, a troll from a regular person.
So I think that's where they're at with specially since they're
working on it, like a start-up, they're building something
completely new. It's a new system, it's Twitter
but it's Twitter 2.0 where there's more things that are
going to be happening in the future.
They're going to be a bank. Basically they're going to be
lets you transfer money between people.
You're going to have your your chat.
You're going to have your wall. You're going to have all sorts
of fun things in Cryptid, chats and Cryptid messages, and also
video and audio. We're going.
Better podcasting on there is going to be better and also
video playback is going to be much better too so they're going
to be testing those things out in the wild and I think that's
what they're doing right now with this.
Check mark thing. So as a software developer I
applaud them for trying new things but it also disrupts
things that are already sort of a standard and with Evert izing,
those people stepped back a little bit and now they're going
to get the idea of what Twitter is doing in the future so they
can make a real choice. It's about if they want to be
part of this platform still or if they want to move on use
their ad spend someplace else. All right, let's get back into
some of the meat of this press release from Twitter.
They go on to say, as we carry out this work, we want to assure
you of a few things first. None of our policies have
changed our approach to policy enforcement will rely more
heavily on D, amplification of via violative content.
Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Our trust in safety, teams continues, its diligent work to
keep the platform safe from hateful conduct abusive
behavior. And any violation of Twitter's
rules the team remains strong and well resource and automated
detection plays an increasingly important role in eliminating
abuse. The third bullet point.
When urgent events manifest on the platform, we ensure that all
content moderators have the guidance.
They need to find in a dress violative.
Tent. And here's the next one.
As we improve our policies and processes bad acts.
Actors also will develop new methods of disruption.
This is not new. Our team of experts is
constantly adapting to identify and diffuse threats and we are
proud of our early results Impressions on violative content
down over the past month, despite the growth, in overall
usage on the platform. Finally, as we embark on this
new Journey, we will make mistakes.
We will learn. And we will also, Things right
throughout will communicate openly with our users and
customers to get and share your feedback as we build.
So those are the main five bullet points that Twitter put
in this press release. And I want to take a look kind
of it. Every one of these in a, in a
broader sense and discuss them. Because I think each one of them
has its own Merit. And some of them, you can kind
of see where the, the ad spend is it is all about.
Damage control in a way. So that's, that's my take on.
It is critical thinking, you think, okay?
They're doing something good, though.
They're open and they're honest about what they're trying to do.
So, the first bullet point is that is it, none of their
policies have changed. Everything's the same, our
approach to policy enforcement will rely more heavily on D,
amplification of violative content.
Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
So none of their policies have changed.
How do they enforce those policies?
Well, that's the that's up in the air at this point.
And they say, The approach to policy enforcement will rely
more heavily on D, amplification as opposed to probably Banning
people out, right? Right.
So that's number one. Number two, is our safety and
Trust team continues to diligent work to keep the platform safe
from hateful conduct abusive behavior in any violation of
Twitter's rules now their trust in the safety team had been
gutted. So about half of that, Workforce
is gone, people have left Twitter, people have quit the
company, people have been fired. They say, Say that the team
remains strong and well resource, but you know, it's
that's objective to who you're talking to and automated
detection plays an increasingly important role in eliminating
abuse. So they're probably using some
AI that they, you know, they may have had before.
But they more than likely haven't built a new AI system in
order to capture, you know, some of these wrongdoers.
So to speak on the platform, since Ilan took hold of
everything. So here we go.
This is bullet. 3, when urgent events manifest on the platform,
we ensure that all content moderators have the guidance.
They need to find an address violative content, basically
train them. You know, I'll cut.
They have the guidance and they have the resources available to
deescalate things and to kind of steer things into a less
violative content creation at that point.
So that's basically the same heart.
Our team is well, well funded, we have enough people, we have
enough resources. Okay, so that's what the last
You were all about this next one.
As we improve our prophecies and processes.
Bad actors will also develop new methods of disruption, this is
not new. So as somebody puts out a new
tool, you know, as Twitter puts out a new tool or something, add
something to the platform Bad actors in any sort of way, we'll
find a way to get around that or disrupted in some way.
And they say this is, this is a funny one.
So, think about this for a second, it says our team of
experts and they didn't have to say experts at that point.
But they use that language for a specific reason because if
you're reading this and it just says our team is constantly
adapting to identifying diffuse threats.
The term experts builds trust with you.
Right. That's a simple word to say.
And if you say you're an expert at something, you know, cool.
Okay. Well, you're an expert
astrophysicists. You probably know a lot about
the universe or you're an expert, archaeologists.
You probably know a lot about the past, you know, so those
terms are used in. A way to kind of reinforce the
fact that these aren't just a bunch of people playing games
over there, they're adapting to identify and diffuse threats and
we are proud of our results. Impressions on violative.
Content are down over the past month, despite the growth, in
overall usage on the platform and the platform has grown since
Elon took charge of it. So if it's down that's it's
pretty good sign. So, I think they're doing well
there. And the last one is finally, as
we embark on this new Journey, we will make mistakes.
So they're admitting like this is the Is putting the cart
before the horse, they're saying, hey we're going to mess
up and this is a good thing to do because if you're admitting
fault to begin with, people can kind of just brush it off and
go, okay. You know, we knew this was going
to happen and we're going to give you a little bit of slack.
They say we will learn and we will also get things right?
So, they'll learn from their mistakes.
And of course, they said mistakes first, before they
said, we will learn. So it seems like they got to
learn from the mistakes. We will also get things right.
Meaning, they're going to move forward with the mistakes.
They're going to keep building. In this open way, you keep
breaking stuff and fixing stuff and throughout the process
they're going to learn from that and then they're going to get
it, right? So they're going to make
mistakes, they're going to learn from those those mistakes and
then get them right in the end throughout will communicate
openly with our users and customers to get and share your
feedback as we build. So they're leaving it up in the
air. They're going to do things
wrong. They're going to learn from it.
They're going to fix it and then they're going to communicate
what happened with the users which is great or maybe they
communicate beforehand. Say hey we're going to try this
thing out. We just wanted to let you know
because if anything seems weird please let us know.
And then I say we remain committed to provide a safe,
inclusive, entertaining and informative experience for
everyone will continue to be transparent as we move through
this transition period and we will listen to you.
The people who make Twitter what it is, the Town Square of the
internet. Okay?
So that was the wrap up at the end.
That could have been the only paragraph they ever said, you
know, they could have just wrote that in a tweet.
We were Remain committed to providing a safe inclusive,
entertaining and informative experience for everyone will
continue to be transparent as we move through this transition
period and will listen to you. So, basically saying, hey, we
know, we got some stuff going on here.
And every time that we do something, we're going to make
sure that it's safe inclusive and entertaining.
We want you to come here and have fun.
We want you to have, you know, conversations with people.
We don't want it to be a horrible place, but we're going
to make some mistakes along the way and we're going to tell you
about it, you know, but we want you.
To tell us about what's wrong to in, they say and we will listen
to you. The people who make Twitter what
it is, they might listen, right? But at the end of the day, will
they change things in order to make Twitter?
A more inclusive safer, more entertaining, and informative
experience for everyone. There are some things that could
happen in the near term that can make these things, you know,
those terms a little bit better in from a content creator.
Six standpoint, making podcasting available on Twitter
would be amazed. I think I'm making long form
content on Twitter would be amazing, you know, a safer place
would be great, you know, as far as I know they have a team in
place according to their press release here, they have a team
in place to make it a safer experience for everybody
involved. So they want to be transparent
about a to. So what they're going to do is
tell us about what's going on and that's all we can really
take from this press release but it's from the Twitter team, not
from Elan himself, so Elon will have these little tidbits and
that's what he does. With all of his companies will
have Something safe from SpaceX and they're working on something
at say a Starship, you know, say if they're working on something
that Starship Saudi posts a picture of something, from a
Starships, a raptor engine. And they say, hey, what is this
pipe do on the Raptor engine? You know, one might say, oh,
that's a pipe that we changed because of this, this and this
and it's happened in the past with Starship.
It's happened with the Dragon capsule.
It's happened with Falcon 9's. It's happened with everything
along the way Elon is posted on Twitter and just said, hey, this
is what we're working on, so expect a bunch S'more stuff from
Elan in the future because I think there's going to be some
interesting things happening at Twitter.
And I think what happened was that all the turmoil from
Twitter immediately happened because it's a new like somebody
else is in charge. Now at half the people are gone.
It's like Elon, snapped, his fingers and half of the people
deteriorated, like something from a comic book movie.
Possibly, you know, he's like the fan House of Twitter, write
F of the people disappeared. So, It's a tumultuous time for
Twitter in the beginning, but I think it's going to kind of
mellow out over the next month or two things are going to start
going into place. I think the moderation teams are
kind of be more robust in the future and I think that the EU
has something to say about that too.
And that's for a whole other episode.
So I want to cue you in on that. The EU in the US are kind of
turning up, he Twitter in In sort of the the next coming
months, EQ, commissioner warns, billionaire, musk.
He must adhere to the rules. So, there we go.
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