Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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In most discussions about twitter on HN, a bunch of devs drop in to say bot removal is so easy twitter obv. must not care at all. Turns out twitter is removing ~1M bots/day. Twitter only has ~300M MAU, making the error tolerance v. low. This seems like a really hard problem.pic.twitter.com/Urm0t1MH57
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One thing I think is interesting is that increased scale doesn't seem to help here. Despite Zuck's bluster, I get about the same amount of spam in FB as I get in Twitter and Gmail sends me more spam than either despite probably investing much more effort in spam prevention.pic.twitter.com/LPUECycJ5n
![". . . It’s why Twitter can’t do as good of a job as we can. I mean, they face, qualitatively, the same types of issues. But they can’t put in the investment. Our investment on safety is bigger than the whole revenue of their company. [laughter] And yeah, we’re operating on a bigger scale, but it’s not like they face qualitatively different questions. They have all the same types of issues that we do."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF4-teOU4AAX5iE.jpg)
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On the flip side, the least spammy/noisy forums I read are tiny, small enough that they can be moderated by 1-2 people. You see the same thing in other areas too, e.g., Windows has more malware risk than Mac, which has more risk than niche stuff like Haiku or Illumos.
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Sure, big platforms have more resources, but they're also bigger targets. I don't think it's obvious a priori which of these factors should win but, with current technology, it looks like being a smaller target is more effective than throwing money at the problem.
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i don't think that centralised systems of global scale… actually scale.
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I wonder just how sincere Zuckerberg is being here. I'm sure he's smart enough to know that Facebook throwing a lot of money at a problem doesn't by itself prove that they're better at solving the problem (in fact one may just as well use this fact to argue for the contrary)
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