Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, claimed on Sunday that he spent a long day at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, California. Elon Musk was resolving two issues: the fanout service for following feed overload and changes to the recommendation system. He added that Twitter would fix the problems with the big typeface and small paragraph spacing the following week.
Elon Musk tweeted about 2 significant problems
Musk tweeted, “Long day at Twitter HQ with eng team. Two significant problems mostly addressed:
1. Fanout service for Following feed was getting overloaded when I tweeted, resulting in up to 95% of my tweets not getting delivered at all. Following is now pulling from search (aka Earlybird). When Fanout crashed, it would also destroy anyone else’s tweets in queue.
2. Recommendation algorithm was using absolute block count rather than percentile block count, causing accounts with many followers to be dumped, even if blocks were only 0.1% of followers. Also, it’s trivial to bot spam accounts with blocks.
He added, “Oversized font & undersized paragraph spacing will be fixed this week.”
Several internet users are responding to his tweet. More than 18,000 people have liked it, and it has had over 2.6 million views. Musk remarked in response to a user’s question about the number of blocks: “The giant block lists are problematic. They mess up the recommendation system & create a DDoS vector”.
Since the CEO of SpaceX assumed control of Twitter, he has made a number of changes, including the $8 paid subscription for the blue badge, gold and silver ticks. Additionally, the reinstatement of blocked or contentious accounts.
According to the CNN report, Elon Musk is also trying to win back the losing advertisers by providing a “fire sale” deal during the Super Bowl. The idea is being put forth to win back the advertisers on one of Twitter’s most significant days of the year. According to the report, Twitter has worked with a third-party company called “brand safety” to alert advertisers when their ads are displayed next to objectionable or dangerous content on the network.
Check out how users reacted on Twitter
In October 2022, Elon Musk acquired the microblogging service in a $44 billion purchase, ending the platform’s nine-year tenure as a publicly traded firm.
Shibetoshi Nakamoto tweeted, “interesting. blocks are quite powerful, but yeah seems like for accounts with a lot of reach, they’ll probably get blocked a lot.” Elon Musk replied by saying, “The giant block lists are problematic. They mess up the recommendation system & create a DDoS vector.”
interesting. blocks are quite powerful ?
but yeah seems like for accounts with a lot of reach, they'll probably get blocked a lot ?
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) February 12, 2023
The giant block lists are problematic. They mess up the recommendation system & create a DDoS vector.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2023
Another user suggested, “You must provide support to edit tweets/ add onger videos to also legacy verified accounts/influencers. That’s the audience that brings respect to twitter too. Consider giving it a thought.”
You must provide support to edit tweets/ add onger videos to also legacy verified accounts/influencers. That's the audience that brings respect to twitter too. Consider giving it a thought.
— Deepika Pushkar Nath (@DeepikaPNath) February 12, 2023
