Elon Musk reportedly considering full Twitter overhaul: \u201cIt\u2019s a flaming dumpster\u201d TED\/YouTubeTwitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly considering a full overhaul of the social media platform as problems continue to build up for the social media giant. In a lengthy Twitter thread from Dave Rubin, the political commentator detailed a recent visit to Twitter\u2019s San Francisco headquarters and delved into some troubles that are brewing at the company. He met up with CEO Elon Musk twice during his visit where Musk described Twitter as \u201ca Fractal Rube Goldberg Machine.\u201d Essentially, its system is so fragile that it\u2019s on a delicate balance and one wrong move can crash the entire website. Rubin even claimed Musk was thinking of taking down Twitter\u2019s code and starting from scratch. Telling the commentator the entire situation is \u201ca flaming dumpster rolling down the street.\u201d He also suggested that Twitter does enforce shadowbans despite ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey repeatedly saying they do not before his departure. Rubin claimed his own account was hit with the bans, with labels such as, \u201crecent misinformation strike\u201d, \u201crecent abuse strike\u201d, and \u201crecent suspension strike\u201d. He also touched on a KeyWord database Twitter allegedly operates. It\u2019s a machine learning algorithm that ensures the social media platform does not promote any violence or overly explicit content. But Rubin claimed that the database is a mess of \u201coverreaching words\u201d to the point that words like \u2018gay\u2019 would make a tweet not advertiser friendly and suppress it in the website\u2019s page by mistake. It must be said that Rubin did not make it clear if these problems arose before or after Musk\u2019s arrival at the company. We\u2019ve already seen plenty of new issues stemming from Musk\u2019s creative direction, but it\u2019s unclear if these particular gripes are fresh or old. We also have to take Rubin\u2019s words with a grain of salt as the political commentator has a history of promoting certain agendas. However, in this instance, we know for certain he was on the ground floor at Twitter\u2019s HQ, lending credence to his reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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