Elon Musk spends long day at Twitter HQ, fixes 2 key problems

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday mentioned that engineers resolved two vital problems on the platform throughout a “long day at Twitter HQ” with him.

He mentioned that the ‘Fanout service for Following feed’ was getting overloaded when “I tweeted, leading to as much as 95 per cent of my tweets not getting delivered at all”.

“Following is now pulling from search (aka Earlybird). When Fanout crashed, it will additionally destroy anybody else’s tweets in queue,” Musk added.

He additionally mentioned that the advice algorithm was utilizing absolute block rely, reasonably than percentile block rely, “inflicting accounts with many followers to be dumped, even when blocks have been solely 0.1 per cent of followers”.

“Also, it is trivial to bot spam accounts with blocks,” the Twitter CEO mentioned.

Musk additionally mentioned that outsized fonts and undersized paragraph spacing might be mounted this week.

“Advertising additionally must be semantic keyword-based, so it is contextually related. Amazingly, advertisements proven when doing twittersearches do not contemplate the search phrases! We’re altering that as quick as potential,” Musk knowledgeable.

When a person mentioned that Blocks are fairly highly effective and “looks as if for accounts with a variety of attain, they will in all probability get blocked quite a bit”, Muskreplied that the large block lists are problematic.

“They mess up the advice system & create a DDoS vector,” he added.

(With inputs from IANS)