1/ A lot of twitter's impressive engineering goes into meeting low-latency SLOs. Feed materialization is a hard problem at scale. But, I don't think that effort enables the magic referenced in the quoted tweet.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1203544842531491840 …
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5/ Scoop-culture isn't just a traditional media problem. People who use twitter — in particular those who use it the most competitively and accumulate the largest followings — tend to register their hot takes as quickly as possible so that they may snowball engagements.
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6/ I've seen lots of takes over the past few years that reduce to, "if you can convince a large set of the biggest accounts to leave twitter and go to [your competitor], you can reboot social media." That's exactly backwards. Supernodes are both the problem and captured asset.
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