Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world.
But what does it mean for you?
I spent the evening analyzing it.
Here’s what you need to know:
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Developer of iOS apps and other things. I treat twitter as a sort of stream of consciousness / self therapy / amusement. You have been warned.
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The Brexit impact on Ireland’s trade: there hasn’t been one
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To celebrate my calculator app PCalc turning 30 today, I've written up all the history I can still remember:
pcalc.com/thirty
There's also a rare 30%-off sale, which runs until midnight tonight, PST.
Mac:
pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac
iOS:
pcalc.com/store/pcalc
Thank you!
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The perfect Christmas postcard.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Apple gave Fortnite the boot for not agreeing with the App Store revenue share and the game was making $1 billion+ on iOS
something tells me Apple won’t be rattled by Musk and his army of 150k users paying $8
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Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
#LateLateToyShow
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An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns:
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Large, long lived distributed systems often *cannot* be restarted. Change over time has created hidden, circular dependencies. The system cannot bootstrap, because it never has.
So there is a very real chance that when hits its next outage, it fails “permanently”.
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Here’s the text of the email Musk sent to Twitter staff overnight.
Those who don’t commit to being “extremely hardcore” by 5pm ET today must leave the company. ‼️
Story: cnn.com/2022/11/16/tec
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i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun:
DAY 1 – ARRIVAL
![Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!
[video of him arriving at twitter carrying a heavy porcelain sink]
Elon Musk
Replying to @elonmusk
Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhkMaQqUYAIuMWN?format=jpg&name=large)
read image description
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Russian channels start asking reasonable questions about 87% of the support of the referendum in Kherson.
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Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
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BREAKING: Facebook parent, $META, plans to begin laying off thousands of employees this week, per WSJ.
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Young Ukrainian girls says that she saw a Russian missile in the sky earlier in the day.
She can’t get over the fact that the missile was sent to kill her.
Russia is scarring a generation of Ukrainian children.
Millions of them will hate Russia forever.
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The fall of the British pound, a 100-year economic history.
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Putin’s lying diplomats should be kicked out of every European country! Argues Simon Tisdall. He is right.
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Nothing indicates that you are a military impotent more than chaotic shelling of children's playgrounds as a response to a non-stop series of military defeats.
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Russia's response to the attack on the Kerch bridge is to target civilians during the rush hour in Kyiv. Terrorising civilians far away from any front line is a desperate act, another sign of their inability to achieve a military victory in the field.
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If you constantly feel like you’re faking it and you don’t deserve to be successful, I’m here to tell you that you’re not alone. The rest of us also feel that way about you.
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What a remarkable image. The daughter of Minoo Majidi--a mother of two who was killed by the Iranian regime while protesting for #MahsaAmini--stands at her mother's gravesite. She is defiantly unveiled, and in her left hand she holds the hair she cut from her head.
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lol. The self-fulfilling prophecy is complete.
Nobody bought Stadia because they assumed Google would kill it, and Google is forced to kill Stadia because it's unpopular.
Google's reputation for killing services killed a service,. I'm not sure how the company ever fixes that.
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🧵 on the "referenda" in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Understandably, many people call these illegal, rigged, & a "travesty of democracy." But portraying them merely as fake democracy misrepresents and understates what Russia is actually doing. Let me explain. 1/
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Day 214 of my 3 day war. The only people now afraid of Russian army are Russian men of military age.
I remain a master strategist.
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UN commission concludes war crimes have been committed in Ukraine
"Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed"
— Erik Mose, commission chair...
#PutinIsAWarCriminal
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#StandWithUkraine
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It is so weird to be so frequently put in a position by friends, organizations, even strangers, to explain why I don't want to get sick. Yes, I'm willing to take some very small, simple, easy precautions to avoid getting sick. On account of not wanting to get sick.
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