2/ There are countless ideas on how to improve twitter and — at least in the case of outsiders — they generally ignore twitter's data architecture. Which also ignores the basic fact that there are a lot of smart people there — they've probably had those ideas, too.
1/ Still cooking take: At twitter-scale, the business model binds the data model tightly and with strong induced path-dependencies.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1192451284424486917 …
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3/ Yes, many are filtered out by a business model that demands ever-increasing amounts of user attention for commodification and resale. But a huge amount of it is probably also: "that's too computationally expensive given an arch that needs to minimize costs to support free."
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4/ And those "too computationally expensive" decisions accumulate. So, yea, maybe
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5/ ...but lately I've been wondering if it's an increasingly *necessarily* exit plan — an attempt to execute a discontinuous jump to a different point in solution place that sheer technical inertia otherwise denies them.
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