2. If someone argues about the validity of your claims, you can point them to other social media AI researchers who agree with you or link to some studies supporting your claim. 3. There is very little accountability so you don't have to think about or cite prior work. (2/3)

4. More importantly, when someone publishes a technical work at a top venue, you can always point them to your earlier tweet telling them that you had this idea long time ago and demand that they acknowledge you in their paper. (3/3)

@rsalakhu I actually like this. Journals/proceedings are originated from the era when we don’t have social media. Now it feels insane that the ideas cannot be shared to the public audience due to the blocker created by 2-3 reviewers…

@rsalakhu I am not sure if humanity needs social media AI researchers, but we clearly have an abundance of social media AI reviewers #2 .

@rsalakhu Dependence and independence are always around when there is a major project done on social media venues that researchers or employees must distance themselves from often from its original social media posts. There does have to be an effort to stop the original projects support.

@rsalakhu It's funny that this tweet follows the "social media AI researcher" format

@rsalakhu Looking forward to citations of this thread in the near future.

@rsalakhu Love it! @ilyasut @ylecun @NandoDF come to mind!

@rsalakhu Twitter is the new Arxiv

@rsalakhu Why do you want to coin a new term for Social AI Influencers?

@rsalakhu Isn't this just a natural (d)evolution from journals to conferences to arXiv to tweets? After all, you spread ideas and results even faster this way!

@rsalakhu The web and much of modern software industry would not be where it is without engineers sharing code and things like IETF contributions without writing papers. They also blog and tweet about it.

@rsalakhu Sounds like this researcher had it all handed to him and he got on the easy track. Not everyone could find somebody to cosign a student loan, or work with 75% taxation to pay 80% of the education of others, while you worked in the cold. Want to know what your mind is doing?

@rsalakhu I could not resist,

@rsalakhu In some fields I believe the term is "Kardashian":

@rsalakhu More huge advantages: 5. You don't have to write a single line of code and deal with any annoying bugs or technical difficulties. 6. It's a fun pastime for a retired professor who's having mid-life crisis.

@rsalakhu I prefer to call it Social Neural Networking 😎

@rsalakhu How about leaving the reviews to the open public? Like what we try to do at

@rsalakhu That is better