[and-not-drew]

Maybe I'm naive, but the implication that this is Musk favoring conservative accounts just seems stupid to me. I'm not saying Musk wouldn't do that, but I just think it's all too fast.

I have no insight into the inner workings of Twitter, but I'm almost certain they don't have a big bias dial that they can turn from "liberal" to "conservative" as they see fit. Based on the decade I've spent working in tech, I'd be shocked if just the development part of a change like that that could be done in a day or two. When you factor in existing priorities, coordinating with stakeholder, design document reviews, code review, QA testing, deployment time, and all the other non coding things it takes to get code from idea to production, it feels like this type of thing would take weeks or even months.

Beyond that though, let's say you could just ignore all that and we could get the code from idea to production in a single day. It's not like Elon is just going to whip out his laptop and start making commits on his own. There would probably be multiple levels of management as well as one or more product teams in the loop on this. Word would travel fast inside the company and I'm sure at least some people at the company would disagree with the decision. We would almost certainly have a "anonymous source from inside the company" leak details.

[mc32]

On the other hand, there may be a toggle that in essence reads: apply manipulation (algorithmic filters)/remove manipulation (algorithmic filters).

[advisedwang]

How does this thread imply this is because of Musk?

[moralestapia]

It doesn't imply that directly but there's definitely the implication that it could be linked somehow to what's happening now regarding the Twitter acquisition.

[teawrecks]

So you're suggesting it's purely coincidence?