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You can't do bot detection with just the tweet text.

Tweets come with a lot more data than that.

Tweet object model: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/data-dicti...

Example payloads: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/data-dicti...



Yeah, I was just highlighting how ignorant Musk is (sarcastically). This must’ve been what he meant by “hardcore software engineering.”


The example tweet, a somewhat large one with links and images, gzips down to 1.5KB by itself. Given that information, I think it would be reasonable to estimate 1KB per tweet in bulk.

500 million times 1KB is... still one USB stick, not even $50 https://amazon.com/SanDisk-512GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B083ZL...

Or going by the retweeted quote tweet that's 40% bigger zipped, it's still well within 1TB which is a normal size for a flash drive.

I'm not very fond of Musk but this is a weak criticism.


Not it isn't. It's not about storage but about analysing the data. It's text so it could easily be compressed to smaller size but this doesn't help in knowing anything about the tweet author, if he is a bit or not.

That's like saying it's easy to check if a picture shows a bird because it's only 100kB.


The tweet he replied to sure seemed to be about volume of data to me.


Musk has one of the top AI researchers of his generation working for him(Karpathy). In general is rich enough to hire anyone he wants for consultation.

I’m boggled by the extent to which people mind-read Musk through his tweets. To me it’s obvious that his Twitter is an outlet for stress busting and banter, like smoke breaks.


Karpathy is on sabbatical and rumored to be interviewing elsewhere.


Hmm… with general AI around the corner, he should be getting paid more than steph curry.




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