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Dave Lee

@daveleeft
175 posts
2023-03-28
Menswear guy* is having a miserable time due to Twitter algo-driven popularity. Musk's business model assumes people want to *pay* to feel that way. I don't see it. (*who seems great, fwiw) https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …

There is not a critical mass of Twitter users who are so desperate for attention they will pay for it. There just isn't. It means the majority of the For You content could end up being organizations who have paid for that. Surely more “elite” than ever? https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …

Twitter Files UPDATE https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
Platformer

Documents: Twitter closely monitors and boosts ~35 accounts, including AOC, President Biden, Ben Shapiro, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, @catturd2, and MrBeast

Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?  —  Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …

Twitter Files UPDATE https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15

Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …

2023-03-06
“They were all dumb as a rock,” says @satyanadella of the first wave of voice assistants. Can generative AI spur a “renaissance” in the tech? Siri's co-creator says yes. Amazon's big dreams for Alexa fall short https://www.ft.com/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Financial Times

Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work”

Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history

2023-02-24
Another fun update from @CaseyNewton and @ZoeSchiffer from within the walls of Twitter. These newsletters are increasingly sounding like something from Samuel Pepys' diary entries on the fire of London. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2023-02-24 View on X
Rolling Stone

Twitter under Elon Musk has yet to publish transparency reports detailing government content removal demands; the company published its last report in July 2022

2023-02-15
“Reads like Downfall subtitles” 💀 https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

Happy Valentine's Day to Bing I guess https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
The Independent

Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers

System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all  —  Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing

2023-02-08
This @JoannaStern interview with Nadella is top class, on what must have been a brutal quick turnaround. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same

CEO Satya Nadella explains why Michael Crider / PCWorld : How to try the new AI-powered Bing search Clare Duffy / CNN : I tried Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing. Here's what it's li...

This @JoannaStern interview with Nadella is top class, on what must have been a brutal quick turnaround. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-02-08 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft unveils an updated Bing search engine and Edge browser powered by a next-gen custom OpenAI LLM, calling the duo an “AI-powered co-pilot for the web”

Microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine Bing, powered by an upgraded version of the same AI technology that underpins chatbot ChatGPT.

2023-01-21
Devils advocate: is there any difference between this and putting something on YouTube's homepage? Or a featured tweet in “Discover”? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
Forbes

According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands

TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos …

2022-12-28
@WillOremus @geoffreyfowler Not having a go at the piece, here, but the redefining of shadowbanning to mean something it didn't mean has all the shades of “fake news” to me.
2022-12-28 View on X
Washington Post

Shadowbanning is real and social media platforms should be more transparent; a survey shows nearly one in 10 US social media users report being shadowbanned

and who it really hurts. … Will Oremus / @willoremus@mastodon.social : Another reason to appreciate Mastodon: no shadowbanning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tweets: Dave Lee...

2022-11-18
Journalists moving from Twitter to Mastodon tonight — we've built a simple service to verify and share journalists' profiles across *any* Mastodon server. Verified accounts get a badge to signal authenticity. Apply here: https://www.presscheck.org/ https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-18 View on X
The Verge

Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum

Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.

2022-11-11
And it's not just SBF. @MilesKruppa sounded the alarm on this back in March: Venture capitalists pass on board seats to secure deals in hot crypto start ups https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-11 View on X
@sbf_ftx

[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more

1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.

2022-11-07
Does adding, say, a Ukrainian flag to your name count as a name change? https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-07 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings

Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …

Thought: if Mastodon takes off, publications should run their own instances for both verification and community purposes
2022-11-07 View on X
TIME

Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more

As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.

So far, every Musk comment/policy has been directly related to his own personal experience on Twitter and little else.
2022-11-07 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings

Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …

2022-11-01
“Having tens of thousands of followers on YouTube or Instagram makes you an income. Having tens of thousands of followers on Twitter makes you a target.” https://www.newstatesman.com/ ...
2022-11-01 View on X
New Statesman

Elon Musk's plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate little revenue, even at $20/month, and could create myriad issues, including enabling spammers

Elon Musk's latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.

2022-10-15
Rapid grocery apps promised speedy delivery, but all most have achieved is a speedy failure. By @tim: https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-15 View on X
Financial Times

Fewer than half of the US and European rapid delivery startups launched in the pandemic are still operating; they face huge losses, a funding drought, and more

As nervous consumers avoided supermarkets during the Covid-19 pandemic, tech entrepreneurs spied a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvent the humble grocery run.

2022-10-11
It's Prime Day! Again! Why? Amazon tries to revive ecommerce business with additional Prime Day https://www.ft.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
Financial Times

Amazon's second Prime Day event is an attempt to capture holiday spending ahead of Black Friday as growth lags; analysts estimate an extra $4.1B in Q4 sales

Amazon is holding its second Prime Day shopping event in a year for the first time this week in a bid to boost its flagship ecommerce product and reverse declining sales.