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Here's a software engineer at twitter who was asked to implement granular per user location tracking and the feature got scrapped because the entire team just refused to implement it mobile.twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status…...
Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted chargesRead the thread - Cites it
Reminds me a little of the story [1] about how in 2005 the execs at Google had a meeting to figure out what to call "Satellite View" in Google Maps. One faction did not like the name "Satellite View" because it was technically incorrect as many of the images had been taken from airplanes, not satellites. But the proposed alternatives like "Aerial photography" all sounded awkward. Right before the meeting ended Sergey Brin decided it would be called "Bird Mode." Later on when the engineering team was actually implementing it they thought Bird Mode sounded dumb and just called it Satellite View. And so it has been ever since. [1]: twitter.com/btaylor/status/109937012667…
The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015Read the thread - Cites it
FWIW, you can use an extension like Redirector (einaregilsson.com/redirector/) to automatically redirect any Twitter URL to Nitter with the following: Redirect: twitter.com/\* to: nitter.net/$1 Hint: Twitter to Nitter Example: twitter.com/yishan/status/1586955288061… Applies to: Main window (address bar) I'm also using this for 'fixing' referral URLs but that's another story.
The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015Read the thread - Cites it
Example: twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700…
Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOCRead the thread - Disagrees
Whether she is a good or bad comedian is an opinion and she wasn't banned for changing her name. She was banned for impersonation. Last year more than 500k accounts were banned for that. It's not new. From the head of Trust & Safety: "First, impersonation has always been banned on Twitter. Misleading profiles make Twitter worse for everyone. Last year, we banned more than half a million accounts for impersonating people and brands." twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1589804642569…
The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015Read the thread - Cites it
And here's Twitter... twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700…
TikTok’s greatest asset isn’t its algorithm, it’s your phoneRead the thread - Cites it
You have to provide location access to enable bluetooth which means things like this story of the most unethical thing this former Twitter employee was asked to build are possible: twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700…
Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortagesRead the thread