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Krishnan: Twitter Algorithms Easily Injected Cultural Bias Into Mainstream News Cycles
“One of the things I saw when I was at Twitter was how easily you could inject cultural bias in your algorithms. I have so many stories about how if you pick the right kind of Twitter accounts, which then feed into the trending algorithm, which then feed into T…”
Gil: Big social incumbents may benefit most from generative AI
“And I think the big social networks like Meta and Twitter and others may actually be the biggest beneficiaries of this new wave, but there also should be room for startups.”
Gil: Twitter tried to acquire a social network using strictly user ratios
“Years ago when I was at Twitter I drove an attempt to buy a major social network that was up and coming. And the way we constructed that offer is we just took their users and our users, added them up and then divided the ratio and made that offer as a proporti…”
Gil: Dorsey ran Square with business units and Twitter functionally
“The way that he ran the two businesses was radically different, right? I think it's everything from the org structure where square was always more. Sort of GM slash business unit, almost driven. Versus Twitter, which was always sort of functionally oriented or…”
Every Hugging Face employee has access to its official Twitter account
“Everyone, everyone in the team has access to the Twitter account and are tweeting from the Twitter account.”
Yarats: Perplexity built unreleased Twitter, Salesforce, and HubSpot integrations early on
“Even though we're like six months or like seven months old company, we actually built so many things. We had like, you know, Twitter, we had like a Salesforce integration. We have like HubSpot integration, like many other things that we never like released.”