Zoë Schiffer
@ZoeSchiffer
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Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Oakland, CA
Joined December 2016
Come talk about the promise and peril of AI with me and @byjacobward next Tuesday at the Battery in SF! I have ~20 spots for those who'd like to attend — just DM me:
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RT @CaseyNewton: From people to servers, Elon Musk is borrowing from across his empire to build Grok. @ZoeSchiffer and I report: https://t.….
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I talked to Yao Yue about being fired by Elon Musk over a tweet — and her success in getting the NLRB to file its first formal complaint against X:
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The NLRB alleges X illegally fired Yao Yue, a principal engineer, after a tweet standing up to Elon Musk post- acquisition:
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RT @CaseyNewton: Here's @ZoeSchiffer interviewing @TaylorLorenz about her new book. Loved learning which social channel is driving the most….
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RT @CaseyNewton: From @ZoeSchiffer and me: . Amid new scrutiny from the FTC, internal documents reveal two top security concerns at X this….
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It looks like Twitter might not have deleted the data, but a bug in the latest deploy (related to the URL shortener) is causing pre 2014 media not to load….
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“Guaranteed this is to save on storage costs.” - former Tweep.
More vandalism from @elonmusk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014.
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RT @tomcoates: More vandalism from @elonmusk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pic….
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Tough day for pmarca.
@teslaownersSV Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs.
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This is proving to be a pretty popular move. Those bought into Musk’s vision are excited, as expected, those who aren’t seem relieved that the company they knew is officially gone.
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NEW: Elon Musk told Twitter employees late last night that he’d just sent them the last email he’d ever send from a Twitter email address. He signed off with this emoji: 🫡.
And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.
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An under appreciated part of this dynamic is that it’s making Twitter employees better at Twitter.
Next stop: increased rate limit for Meta Verified subscribers. Save this tweet.
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Elon Musk says xAI will train on Twitter data but the future looks more like AI training on AI-generated data — I’m curious how this squares with studies that show synthetic data can cause generative AI systems to collapse. Anyone know?.
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I will abide by the results of this poll.
A poll without a question 😬.
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NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email saying the company needs to ship better features faster than ever. He doesn’t mention Threads, but of course the success of the new social network looms large….
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Twitter’s argument seems completely ahistorical. Meta poached Twitter employees and charged them with building a Twitter-killer? Seems like Musk fired a vast number of employees, the user experience on Twitter declined, and a number of competitors saw an opportunity….
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Twitter says any advance notice on rate limiting “would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.” Curious if that rationale extended to not alerting employees 🙃.
Over the past few days, we've taken action to keep making Twitter a great place for everyone. And we want you to know why 👇.
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Twitter's former head of engineering weighs in on Meta's Twitter clone.
It’s gonna be an interesting few weeks/months … .If it’s truly on a decentralized protocol, I am a fan. It was about time we have a “meta” level aggressive execution of a decentralized protocol.
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