New Delhi: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday mentioned that engineers resolved two vital issues on the platform throughout a “long day at Twitter HQ” with him. He mentioned that the `Fanout service for Following feed` was getting overloaded when “I tweeted, resulting in up to 95 percent of my tweets not getting delivered at all”. “Following is now pulling from search (aka Earlybird). When Fanout crashed, it would also destroy anyone else`s tweets in queue,” Musk added.
He additionally mentioned that the advice algorithm was utilizing absolute block rely, somewhat than percentile block rely, “causing accounts with many followers to be dumped, even if blocks were only 0.1 percent of followers”. (Also Read: Apple AirTag Helped Couple Get Back Stolen Car Within 2 Hours- Here’s How)
“Also, it`s trivial to bot spam accounts with blocks,” the Twitter CEO mentioned. Musk additionally mentioned that outsized fonts and undersized paragraph spacing will likely be fastened this week. (Also Read: Harsh Goenka Shares Clip of Newlywed Welcomed by Indian Navy Officers to Tribe- Watch Heartwarming Video)
“Advertising also needs to be semantic keyword-based, so it`s contextually relevant. Amazingly, ads shown when doing twitter searches don`t consider the search words! We`re changing that as fast as possible,” Musk knowledgeable.
When a person mentioned that Blocks are fairly highly effective and “seems like for accounts with a lot of reach, they`ll probably get blocked a lot”, Musk replied that the large block lists are problematic. “They mess up the recommendation system & create a DDoS vector,” he added.
