Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-03-31 21:35:19 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 44E3AE8483FA2F2EC46ABC6481CB9498454287675667FFBD38E0C1C25875D679
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According to the comments on the file containing this code and a Twitter engineer's comment on a recent Twitter Space, this code is for metrics/logging. https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1641892926409134088 https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b928b479b512ec51ac2c3821f5922/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/search?q=elon This may or may not be related to sources claiming Twitter engineers were forced to boost Elon's tweets last month. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system
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