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If Twitter survives and people shut up their mouths complaining after few months we'll see who was right.


It's already breaking down. HW/SW aside, a lot of the services had teams monitoring them, which don't exist anymore.

Some of the side effects of that:

- Trends are not working correctly.

- Copyright reporting is not working.

- Appealing flagged tweets isn't being responded to.

It's only a matter of time before these get abused with no one to fix them.


>- Trends are not working correctly.

"Trends" were subject to Twitter's "trends blacklist" before; something that leaked a few years ago. Maybe they're working correctly now that they're unencumbered. Can you describe how they're not working now?

>- Appealing flagged tweets isn't being responded to.

Mine was responded to in a handful of hours. Much faster than I was expecting.

>It's only a matter of time before these get abused with no one to fix them.

"the walls are closing in" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEchPZm318


> Can you describe how they're not working now?

The team would moderate junk trends. So some of the trends are literally just random words being spouted. Similar to early day twitter.

> Mine was responded to in a handful of hours.

Recently? That's impressive when the related teams are gone.

> "the walls are closing in"

I am not sure what a YT video about Trump has to do with my comment.

I refer you "in comments": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


And then the other big tech companies will take note. I personally know of highly compensated teams in VMware that do almost nothing.




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