Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search – he’s got 12 weeks

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23472869/george-hotz-twitter-internship-search-elon-musk-self-driving-cars

by xrayarx • 4 years ago

17 12 4 years ago

... and remove the login prompt, which admittedly is one of the worst features of Twitter right now. Perhaps I'm letting my cynical professionalism cloud my judgment, but it seems to me that one of these problems takes about 4 hours to fix, while the other would be a 3-12 month research problem.

That's a neat way to guarantee partial success, though!

mikkergp• 4 years ago

I was wondering, he did a poll on twitter though that suggested the most mentioned problems with search may be fixed just by adding some specific filters/subpages, which does beg the question though, what is broken about Twitter's search?

"Searching within "liked" and "seen" tweets with a modifier should be table stakes. ‣ The modifiers and advanced search should be surfaced a lot better. Discord does this well. ‣ Move away from exact text search and toward embeddings."

Not sure what the third one means.

https://nitter.net/realGeorgeHotz/status/1594855304382275584...

jollyllama• 4 years ago

I'm not sure either, I like how the exact text search works now. At least in "latest". The "Top" algo is garbage.

fragmede• 4 years ago

"problem"; I mean the login prompt is an explicit design decision by the product team that used to be there.

ergocoder3• 4 years ago

And it is a bad design decision that is universally hated by everyone.

ergocoder3• 4 years ago

Initially I thought hiring this guy would be mostly hot air (e.g. spewing out grand vision non sense). He immediately found a concrete high-impact and low-hanging-fruit problem to solve on his first week.

This login prompt is universally hated by everyone. You'd have to wonder why twitter never thought or be bold enough to remove it.

sn0w_crash• 4 years ago

Wow

guardiangod• 4 years ago

That sound pretty fun, actually. No commitment, straight to work from first day of the job for 12 weeks straight.

papito• 4 years ago

Ah yeah, the Office Heroics boss. "Here is a random date for no reason, GO!"

randyrand• 4 years ago

Hotz specifically asked for a 3 month internship.

Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search – he’s got 12 weeks

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