Engineering

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Engineering
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Updates from our engineering team
San FranciscoJoined June 2007

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This week we’re making Likes private for everyone to better protect your privacy. – You will still be able to see posts you have liked (but others cannot). – Like count and other metrics for your own posts will still show up under notifications. – You will no longer see who…
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We are launching a manual video playback quality selector on iOS. It should be useful in certain cases. More improvements are coming. p.s. Video upload selector which was launched recently is now enabled again after bugfix
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This change was made for all posts, not just ads. You can long press a user’s avatar to see the former menu with block/follow/etc. We are just making the menu cleaner.
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X Daily News
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NEWS: X has removed the ability to block, mute, and follow accounts from ads in the latest X for iOS update. x.com/aaronp613/stat…
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In addition the study Bloomberg cites, a recent study foundwere perceived as significantly more trustworthy than traditional, simple misinformation flags — across the political spectrum! And had a greater effect on improving people’s identification of misleading
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Screenshot of Bloomberg article saying "Elon Musk's Community Notes Feature on X Is Working" and "Crowdsourced fact-checking is better at curtailing misinformation than content moderation."
Yeah, we are making likes private. Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be "edgy" in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image. Soon you’ll be able to like without
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SPECULATION: X *might* be hiding likes for all users by default. x.com/aaronp613/stat…
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Twitter -> X is not simply a redirect. Attempts to set a cookie via a Set-Cookie header will be blocked because the Domain attribute will be invalid with regard to the host URL.
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Alin Gălățan
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Replying to @calwoodford and @cstanley
I'll explain why setting cookies across domains with a 302 redirect is hard, and why those saying "it's just a redirect" are wrong. First, let's see what AI has to say about it: ------------------------ AG: Will a Set-Cookie header in a 302 redirect response from `domainA`
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forgot what you Grok'd? we got you. view your chat history with Grok, now on web and iOS
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Major improvements on For you today! Let us know your feedback over the next couple of days, is it getting better or worse? For those interested: we are eliminating several major heuristics as we move toward realtime end-to-end neural network based recommendations.
More updates coming soon for Communities 👀
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Communities
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What's new with Communities
We've been working hard to build an even better experience for Communities on X! Today we're sharing some exciting updates and a preview of what we're building next: You can now discover posts from...
Share card foris rolling out with latest Android update. More improvements to Grok on Android on the way. ... btw Grok is great at checking what is the overall sentiment of major events
Advertisers can now reach users on X simply by describing who they want to target. This will make ad targeting extremely simple for advertisers and relevant for our users.
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Business
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👀Coming soon: AI Audiences Briefly describe the target audience for your ads and our AI systems will generate a pool of the most relevant X users to target in seconds.
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Tell us who you want your ads to reach and we’ll take care of the rest 💪
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👀Coming soon: AI Audiences Briefly describe the target audience for your ads and our AI systems will generate a pool of the most relevant X users to target in seconds.
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We heard your feedback. Starting today, when you block a user, they won't get kicked out of any group chats you both are in. Whoever you blocked still won't be able to message you individually but will still see your messages in a shared group chat. We are continuously…
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An entire rewrite is underway since many parts of the system are not useful anymore. Major product surfaces like For you, and several others, have been rewritten. Working aggressively on deleting the long tail of our code base. The goal is to make the system extremely fast to…
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