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by xNeil 979 days ago
Everything except short-term profits. X seems decently focused on the long term, especially with subscriptions being introduced as a (new) revenue stream.

Also not sure about R&D, as I don't know what R&D Twitter was doing pre-acquisition, but there's been an extraordinary increase in the rate of addition of new features and changes to the platform.
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ffgjgf1 978 days ago
> especially with subscriptions being introduced as a (new) revenue stream.

I don’t think that’s ever likely to offset the massive amounts of debt Musk offloaded to Twitter’s balance sheet to fund the acquisition.

> changes to the platform.

Likely one of the most horrible rebrandings in the history of corporate rebranding?

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water-data-dude 978 days ago
He fired the ML Ethics Transparency and Accountability team. They did a lot of high quality work on understanding bias in opaque ML models.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/

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