Parag Agrawal
@paraga
Followers
575,869
Following
1,348
Media
287
Statuses
3,293
device following @vintweeta
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
#IanxSB19xTerry
• 323435 Tweets
Rio Grande do Sul
• 123680 Tweets
Madonna
• 122345 Tweets
Boeing
• 110851 Tweets
suho
• 96797 Tweets
#MOONLIGHTOutNow
• 71740 Tweets
Özgür Özel
• 67441 Tweets
RPWP CONCEPT PHOTO 2
• 61899 Tweets
Irak
• 60580 Tweets
Nathan
• 52183 Tweets
عدنان البرش
• 34678 Tweets
#無責任でええじゃないかLOVE
• 28117 Tweets
KPLC
• 15237 Tweets
Canna
• 11795 Tweets
Ivar Jenner
• 11185 Tweets
Ernando
• 10819 Tweets
ALGS
• 10743 Tweets
Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here.
11K
15K
95K
I took this job to change Twitter for the better, course correct where we need to, and strengthen the service. Proud of our people who continue to do the work with focus and urgency despite the noise.
12K
2K
41K
Let’s talk about spam. And let’s do so with the benefit of data, facts, and context…
2K
2K
17K
"If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists."
6K
5K
16K
A lot has happened over the past several weeks. I’ve been focused on the company and haven't said much publicly during this time, but I will now.
1K
1K
17K
While I expect the deal to close, we need to be prepared for all scenarios and always do what’s right for Twitter. I’m accountable for leading and operating Twitter, and our job is to build a stronger Twitter every day.
312
265
4K
Here’s the announcement to the company about our approach and commitment to truly flexible work.
239
373
4K
Let’s do it!
@leslieberland
I will host the CEO of Twitter,
@paraga
on my Twitter Space in the first quarter of 2022.
*let's retweet until he sees this*
#TweetItIntoExistence
#SpaceswithIvy
@TwitterSpaces
38
1K
1K
286
768
4K
First, let me state the obvious: spam harms the experience for real people on Twitter, and therefore can harm our business. As such, we are strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day. Anyone who suggests otherwise is just wrong.
317
246
4K
Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share). Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.
991
307
4K
We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam – if they can’t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc).
279
392
4K
We announced changes to our leadership team and operations yesterday. Changes impacting people are always hard. And some have been asking why a “lame-duck” CEO would make these changes if we’re getting acquired anyway. The short answer is very simple:
97
174
3K
No one at Twitter is working just to keep the lights on. We take pride in our work. Regardless of the company’s future ownership, we’re here improving Twitter as a product and business for customers, partners, shareholders, and all of you.
112
173
3K
Finally – so much gratitude for our whole Twitter team. They have stood strong and focused, sharp and agile. They've been doing the work, as they always have. Onward.
160
150
3K
Next, spam isn’t just ‘binary’ (human / not human). The most advanced spam campaigns use combinations of coordinated humans + automation. They also compromise real accounts, and then use them to advance their campaign. So – they are sophisticated and hard to catch.
134
237
3K
Each human review is based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data (eg, IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser signatures, what the account does when it’s active…) to make a determination on each account.
227
213
3K
The hard challenge is that many accounts which look fake superficially – are actually real people. And some of the spam accounts which are actually the most dangerous – and cause the most harm to our users – can look totally legitimate on the surface.
143
255
3K
I will also try to bring more transparency to the work that we do. You won’t see tweets from me on the ‘topic of the day’ or the loudest sound bite, but rather on the ongoing, continuous, and challenging work our teams are doing to improve the public conversation on Twitter.
275
138
3K
Some final context: fighting spam is incredibly *dynamic*. The adversaries, their goals, and tactics evolve constantly – often in response to our work! You can’t build a set of rules to detect spam today, and hope they will still work tomorrow. They will not.
82
218
3K
People have also asked: why manage costs now vs after close? Our industry is in a very challenging macro environment – right now. I won’t use the deal as an excuse to avoid making important decisions for the health of the company, nor will any leader at Twitter.
33
113
3K
Because I mentioned the deal in this thread, he’re the obligatory legalese for your reading pleasure
287
148
3K
So what can you expect from me going forward? I’m still focused on doing the job, and that includes making hard decisions as needed. I will continue to embrace the deep complexities of our service and our business. And you can expect more change for the better.
67
118
3K
Our team updates our systems and rules constantly to remove as much spam as possible, without inadvertently suspending real people or adding unnecessary friction for real people when they use Twitter: none of us want to solve a captcha every time we use Twitter.
99
149
2K
The use of private data is particularly important to avoid misclassifying users who are actually real. FirstnameBunchOfNumbers with no profile pic and odd tweets might seem like a bot or spam to you, but behind the scenes we often see multiple indicators that it’s a real person.
161
192
2K
For those of you who want to learn more in the meantime:
591
338
2K
Now, we know we aren’t perfect at catching spam. And so this is why, after all the spam removal I talked about above, we know some still slips through. We measure this internally. And every quarter, we have estimated that <5% of reported mDAU for the quarter are spam accounts.
93
144
2K
Our estimate is based on multiple human reviews (in replicate) of thousands of accounts, that are sampled at random, consistently over time, from *accounts we count as mDAUs*. We do this every quarter, and we have been doing this for many years.
65
144
2K
There are LOTS of details that are very important underneath this high-level description. We shared an overview of the estimation process with Elon a week ago and look forward to continuing the conversation with him, and all of you.
312
149
2K
Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well under 5% – based on the methodology outlined above. The error margins on our estimates give us confidence in our public statements each quarter.
149
145
2K
Super excited to welcome
@_tessr
to lead our Crypto engineering team. More about this team 👇
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Twitter, to lead a new team focused on crypto, blockchains, and other decentralized technologies—including and going beyond cryptocurrencies.✨
642
925
7K
200
168
2K
Hey
@lionheart1759
— thanks for sharing your inspiring journey with the world on Twitter, and with our
@TwitterGhana
team. Love to see it
#LondonToLagos
Since 19th April,
@lionheart1759
has been riding from
#LondontoLagos
on a campaign to end Polio.He’s shared daily updates of his journey on Twitter. Myself,
@OluwamayowaTJ
&
@nnekachile
of
#TwitterGhana
office had the privilege to meet him on his arrival in GH.
#TwitterForGood
14
150
610
123
377
2K
Excited to chat with
@ivybarley
today!
I'm thrilled to share that I'll be hosting the CEO of Twitter,
@paraga
on my Space on Wednesday 16th February at 11am PT | 7pm GMT.
Y'all know I've been looking forward to this. 😃
Set your reminder and retweet:
#SpaceswithIvy
#TweetItIntoExistence
178
2K
7K
180
341
1K
Definitely happening
As of now, Twitter is still hosting its NewFront presentation for advertisers next week in NYC. Pretty surprising considering the backdrop of ~everything Elon~ and
@jack
saying Twitter is held back by the ad model
11
14
112
415
98
1K
I’m incredibly excited for Twitter to kick off
@bluesky
, a new independent effort to develop a decentralized standard for social media. Please see
@jack
’s thread for more context. I have the privilege of finding a lead for this team.
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
2K
13K
50K
47
260
1K
We have a responsibility – particularly during crisis – to:
- Proactively enforce our rules
- Preserve access to
@Twitter
- Protect privacy+safety of people on our service
- Prevent efforts to manipulate public conversation
- Promote credible information
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, we’ve been expanding our work to protect the conversation happening on Twitter.
Today, we’re sharing key data and a comprehensive look at our work. 🧵
92
143
391
655
120
953
Thank you to all the tweeps who made this past week in
@TwitterUK
and
@TwitterDublin
so energizing.
And thank goodness
@DaraNasr
is so funny!
1K
64
722
3) Wherever you feel most productive and creative is where you will work and that includes WFH full-time forever. 4) Distributed working will be challenging. We’ll need to be proactive, intentional, learn, and adapt. 5) Thank you to the team who has supported us every day.
56
55
688
Ansh was born on Thanksgiving. His name means “a part of” - a part of something bigger, a part of our family, a part of our community. I’m so grateful for all the support
@vintweeta
and I have gotten from our Twitter family over the last many weeks.
#oneteam
82
7
663
Text-only summary: 1) Business travel is back effective immediately, and all global Twitter offices will open starting on March 15. 2) Decisions about where you work, whether you feel safe traveling for business, and what events you attend, should be yours. (cont.)
51
41
593
Sachin is a bad captain. Even if MI manage to win from this point.
121
313
513
I’m thrilled to share that
@arcalinea
will be the
@bluesky
lead.
The ideal candidate is someone who is hands-on technically, curious across disciplines, has experience working in the open on the blockchain, an opinionated vision for this effort, and is thrilled by the idea of shaping the future of social media.
13
11
108
31
20
378
We are sharing this information to help people make an informed decision about their account security. We didn’t have to, but believe it’s the right thing to do.
We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password.
2K
22K
15K
217
157
367
I should not have said we didn’t have to share. I have felt strongly that we should. My mistake.
We are sharing this information to help people make an informed decision about their account security. We didn’t have to, but believe it’s the right thing to do.
217
157
367
67
62
330
The team and community that Jay will bring together can shape the future of social media through decentralization using open standards. Join her👇
14
18
258
Grateful that I got this one right 5 yrs ago!
#Twitterversary
27
25
245
🙏 to everyone that participated. Amazing to see so much creative energy help build a better understanding around algorithms and their impact on people.
Drumroll please! Our first-ever algorithmic bias bounty at
#defcon
wrapped this weekend, and the winners were announced at yesterday’s
#defcon
@aivillage_dc
workshop. ICYMI, you can watch a recording of the presentation here
3
47
140
23
15
231
Define leadership
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to
#startsmall
LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here:
34K
68K
386K
6
20
218
I believe most of Twitter’s impact is in the future. Really excited to build technology with all our incredible engineering, product, design, and research teams to bring about positive change.
#LoveWhereYouWork
We‘re reorganizing how Twitter is going to work together for the next decade. Sent this note to our team, and sharing with the world, because we want to be more open about how we think and work. This is a small but important step. Experimenting! Let us know what you think.
222
511
2K
13
25
208
We are very excited to welcome
@mmbronstein
and the
@fabula_ai
team to Twitter!
📣 We're excited to announce
@Fabula_AI
is joining Twitter! They'll bring their machine learning talent to help us grow our research team and graph deep learning technology to improve the health of the conversation on Twitter. Welcome to the flock!
16
92
237
4
38
188
Glad Uber and Lyft agree that this problem is best solved together. Also great to see Twitter play a part in fostering this collaboration.
8
30
191
Rajnikanth once sent $420 to a Nigerian scammer, and ended up receiving a $4.20 million inheritance.
#LegendOfRajni
40
96
179
Traveling for work is always a reminder for me - it can be hard. And we don’t acknowledge our families and support structures enough - thanks to all who are traveling to Houston, and thanks to all who are staying behind to hold down the fort at home!
#oneteam2020
2
0
168
Yes! Thrilled to strengthen our partnership with
@awscloud
and continue working towards an even better, lower-latency experience for people using Twitter all around the world!
5
20
164
These 3 days in India have been incredible: Khandala in the rain. Nariman Point by night. Street food. Eid. Ganeshji. And FOOD at home.
14
54
136
Can someone wake me up for the IPL match if and only if Sachin is playing?
18
78
130
👇
I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban
@realDonaldTrump
from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?
41K
14K
97K
58
16
127
Thrilled to welcome
@InteranaBobby
and the rest of
@InteranaCorp
team to Twitter!
We are excited to bring their expertise to help us better understand how people use Twitter so we can deliver better products and features, faster.
6
21
129
Excited to partner with
@ruchowdh
to accelerate our work on Responsible ML and push into exciting new directions around providing people more choice and control over algorithms.
Big news! - I’m thrilled to be joining the
@TwitterEng
team today as Director of ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability. With the META team, we’ll work to improve ML transparency, inclusivity and accountability. 1/
205
145
2K
19
6
127
We’ve seen a lot of benefit from our partnership with
@GCPcloud
and are now doubling down for offline data and ML workloads.
I'm thrilled to be greatly expanding our partnership with
@Twitter
on their Data and Machine Learning applications!
@paraga
@nicktornow
@derekalyon
6
35
305
5
17
127
Look forward to working with the
@HelloSmyte
team on improving the health of the public conversation on Twitter.
43
11
125