Twitter owner Elon Musk continues to be surprised by how Twitter works. Last week he learned that their code ‘shadowbanned’ any account with low reputation score, preventing them from trending, and the calculation was based on ‘how many times were you reported’ so every big account got shadowbanned.
I roll to disbelieve. If this were the case, virtually zero tweets by large accounts would ever trend. There must either be some additional code that overrides this shadowban or some list that nullifies its effects.
It’s still hilarious that it was in the codebase at all.
I don’t know what to think about Musk not paying the GCP bill. He obviously has the money. Does he really not want to sell more Tesla stock that badly? Why would you risk a 44 billion dollar investment involving a ton of your own money (not to mention that of many of your friends) over a 1 billion dollar bill?
I roll to disbelieve. If this were the case, virtually zero tweets by large accounts would ever trend. There must either be some additional code that overrides this shadowban or some list that nullifies its effects.
It’s still hilarious that it was in the codebase at all.
I don’t know what to think about Musk not paying the GCP bill. He obviously has the money. Does he really not want to sell more Tesla stock that badly? Why would you risk a 44 billion dollar investment involving a ton of your own money (not to mention that of many of your friends) over a 1 billion dollar bill?