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[deleted] t1_iv5mvdy wrote

Bah. Like Facebook, Twitter is a platform that gained widespread traction in a small amount of time, via state-sponsored founders which the various powers to be knew they could control.

Twitter is a cobbled-together mess of PHP server farms, just like Facebook. AI assuredly plays an extensive role with Twitter for their recommender systems and the like, but guaranteed its the Twitter-per-user scaling factor on infrastructure services amount in terms of dollars and cents which drives profitability and causes advertising to be such a requirement in their financial model.

Twitter realistically could be (and should) be rewritten from the ground up from a technology stack perspective. Wouldn't take more than a few months to do it right, pennies on the dollar per user infrastructure fees etc.

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MythOfMyself OP t1_iv6086k wrote

But how about the data on people? All that cross info

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[deleted] t1_ivanw18 wrote

Oh sure, ultimately speaking Twitter is there to harvest as much information as possible, just like Facebook; shareholder profits are second to that missive. Geolocation data especially, all of these apps have access to GPS data if permissions are enabled by the user, and to additional sensor data such as accelerometer trajectories that can be used by AI models to pinpoint exact user geolocation by picking up on things like potholes and specific trajectories of curves of roads during travel, even if GPS permissions have been disabled by the user.

  1. The U.S. federal government and their WEF handlers are entitled to all of that surveillance data, because they worked behind the scenes to leverage their embedded media operatives to promote Twitter/Facebook/TikTok etc during nascent stages, in exchange for IPOs and Ferraris for the corporate founders;

  2. Shareholders are entitled to ever-increasing profits, that's why they signed up for the promises of #1 above; but

  3. Bearded Dorsey make the mistake of getting involved in politics and then disappointed one-too-many shareholders with their earnings calls, just like Facebook is doing, because... it's just an app;

  4. Cue corporate cleanup team.

Anyways understand that AI is always in the background of these projects, you rarely see the effects of AI and what it's being used for in social networking beyond recommender systems (what Twitter recommends you follow or buy next). The real application of AI with Twitter and Facebook and TikTok and the rest is hidden, that's the part where they are using deep neural networks to divine insights about crowd dynamics and social hierarchies and influencer analysis into what drives people to act in large numbers, etc. You don't see any of those results, nor do their shareholders. That all goes back to Aunt Sam.

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