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this is Fade to Black with your host

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Jimmy Church on the game changer Radio

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good evening Fade to Black I'm your host

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Jimmy church and tonight's

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we're going to do this secret history of

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Twitter

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that's right we're gonna jump straight

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into it

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what do you know what don't you know

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I'm gonna do a little uh

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deep dive into the history and and how

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it all started and where some of the

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controversies uh Rose uh we're gonna get

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into all of that much of this you

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probably don't know

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and right now with everything that is

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and of course I'm referring to Elon Musk

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and everything that is happening around

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Twitter right now but what is the real

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story right and I think a lot of us

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uh have been to a different side of

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Twitter lately

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which is the last few years

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but what went on before and how was it

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established and certainly the global

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players uh that have been and currently

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are still involved with Twitter State

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actors and actors so we're going to get

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into all of that and of course where we

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are today now the basics of the basics

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are this

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um oh also

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I I do want to say uh from the outset

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that I am not going to be looking at

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comments or anything like that or

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commenting on the comments or questions

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uh throughout the program

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uh once I get to the end of this and it

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is lengthy uh I may uh refer back uh to

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the chat and to Twitter to see the

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comments there and see if there's

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anything that needs to be addressed but

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more than likely at the end of this

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thing I want to say and I'm going to

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comment on this uh uh a couple of spots

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uh that I met I met Jack Dorsey uh very

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very early on into the life of Twitter

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so there is that

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side right there's a there's a personal

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connection here and I need to leave all

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I need to remain objective

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um but I did find uh Jack to be

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uh from the very beginning uh I didn't

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even know who he was at first and and uh

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if you know what I mean his background

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and and all that stuff but uh I always

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found him to be very nice very smart uh

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uh sports fan too as well which is kind

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um and he had told me a couple of

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strange things ah should I say these uh

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right and he was cool to me

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but but all of that needs to be pushed

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to the side because once you

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just it's just a crazy story it's a

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crazy story and it all started uh

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Twitter was created by Jack Jack Dorsey

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Noah glass bizstone and Evan Williams

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2006. now that is now starting to get to

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you know right in there Twitter Twitter

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was just turning into uh something

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closer to what we uh see today all right

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but but it was just 2006 and so much has

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happened this show uh is now uh into its

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where into our 10th year and if I go

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Twitter and you can go back and

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historically look at at my tweets

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treated Twitter like you know like it

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was my own company uh it it was just a

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way for me to advertise and to Market uh

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the beginning I never really uh from the

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outset got involved in controversy or

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you know will post things or would go

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and look for that stuff too as well I

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just never did so I have adapted to it

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over the years more and more into just a

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for me to uh get stuff out about the

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program who we have on and stuff I I

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just never got into the drama

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that is out there in and around Twitter

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and what it turned into

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um so let's let's continue because

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now let's just start there what is

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it's an online social media and social

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networking service

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where users like myself and you post and

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interact with messages that are called

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tweets

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registered users if you have an account

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redistribute tweets it's called

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retweeting while unregistered users can

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only read public tweets that's all there

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is no interaction at all tweets were

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originally and it's this is part of the

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historical record it was a big change

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the tweets were originally restricted to

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140 characters

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um but the limit was doubled to 280 back

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in November uh 2017 and I remember

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sitting uh with Jack

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discussing though I mean let me think

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about this now this is probably

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seven years eight years before that

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around 2010 2009 I was like dude 140k

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what can you do with 140 characters and

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he had explained to me you know it's

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just the SMS limit and we based

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everything around that I'll get back

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into it and but the way that he

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I just don't get 140 characters is not

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enough

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all right and I was very excited in 2017

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when it was up to 280 I thought man now

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after compressing everything to 140

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characters and being able to jump this

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up to 280 and now 280 doesn't you know

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it's not nearly enough we all know that

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but it allows you in my opinion to get

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to the point I compress it down no

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reason for anything lengthy you've got

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to do something long do it on your own

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blog or go post on Facebook but

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nonetheless uh the ways around that you

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post that you know your long you know

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first chapter of your book or what have

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you or a link to something external but

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in one of the biggest deals to take a

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company private the board of directors

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of Twitter agreed to a 44 billion dollar

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takeover by Elon Musk that deal closed

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on October 27 2022 that's right we all

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now obviously this is a very very brief

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overview

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all right let's let's just go straight

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to it it's time to jump into the deep

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end of the pool okay that's it we need

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to make sure it's at least uh 12 feet

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deep by the way

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you don't want to hit bottom

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lie in a day-long brainstorming session

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described by many that were there

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Jack Dorsey then an undergrad undergrad

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introduced the idea of an individual

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to communicate with a small group that's

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the germ of the idea gets plopped right

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there by Jack Dorsey

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now the original project code name for

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the service was twttr

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domain and changed the name of the

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when Dorsey published the first Twitter

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message at 12 50 p.m Pacific time and it

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with this and so I'm quoting directly

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the definition was quote a short burst

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and quote chirps from Birds end quote

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2006 he had Stoney Ed Williams he had

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possessions and owned by uh odium

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was it was it just shared information

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between users right SMS short messages

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information it's something internal or

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was it a social network

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few social networks and of course

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defined at the time and and I did I had

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conversations with Jack about this I

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personally didn't understand what it was

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I mean to me

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to me it was just like a public SMS it

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was just texting

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right I I didn't get it and although he

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he agreed with me said yes yes it is

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just SMS a public version of texting but

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but he kept telling me it could be so

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much more

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and and a global thing

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now and and I and I and I just I

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couldn't wrap my head around it

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I didn't I didn't

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in 2007

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check this out

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especially compared to today right and

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I'll go through all of this 2007 Twitter

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was averaging around 20 000 tweets per

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oh man we do that many in our chat room

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per show right okay so think about that

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I'll think about that for a second just

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twenty thousand tweets per day and then

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in 2007

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South by Southwest happened in Austin

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Texas

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that's right Twitter showed up Twitter

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attended and and at this time Twitter's

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just doing 20 000 tweets a day

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that's it very small

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but Twitter showed up

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and the Twitter people

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placed

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just two

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60-inch plasma screens

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in the conference hallways that's it

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that was the turn

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but on these two screens they were

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exclusively streaming Twitter messages

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right and so the conference goers there

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attending South by Southwest walk down

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these hallways and they would go up to

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these screens

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and see who was

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posting

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and they were keeping tabs on each other

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wasn't that many users right and so they

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could see all the action from South by

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Southwest there there were tweets from

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panelists uh musicians and speakers and

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so forth and then on on different panels

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and discussions that were happening

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they in turn were mentioning Twitter

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and everybody in the audience is hearing

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this they're signing up for Twitter

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right now at the end of South by

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Southwest

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I remember all of this I was reading

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about I was you know South by Southwest

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right

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the Twitter staff received the

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festival's web award prize

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and then there was this

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tweet

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we'd like to thank you in 140 characters

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or less

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we just did

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so those

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those moments

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at South by Southwest turn the ship

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remember those 20 000 tweets per day up

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to South by Southwest in 2007.

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Twitter experienced an explosion

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it was crazy

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it had around half a million between 400

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000 and a half a million tweets posted

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in the entire quarter first quarter of

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2007. that's it

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this grew to

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100 million tweets posted per quarter

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by February of 2010

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Twitter users were sending 50 million

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tweets

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per second

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so we go back 20 000 tweets per day

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in the entire day

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you know it's six months later 100

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million

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you know in a quarter it's a huge growth

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and then you just jump a year and a half

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later

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50 million tweets

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per day

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Now by June 2010 we're at February 2010

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okay

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by June 2010 about 65 million tweets

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were posted each day

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that's 750 tweets per second

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that's February bye

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by uh September or that's uh June by

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September 2010 the company began rolling

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out new Twitter

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I remember this an entirely revamped

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edition of twitter.com

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it looked pretty fancy kinda look like

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I I I I

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watch I use Twitter black I use Twitter

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dark and as soon as you were able to do

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that I needed to know that I was on two

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different platforms

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and that's how I did it because they

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looked very very similar

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six months later that was September

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2010. six months later in March 2011

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everything more than doubled to about

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140 million tweets posted daily

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just six months later on February 21st

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2012 it was announced

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this is a big deal this is where the

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that's because

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Twitter

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and Yandex

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agreed to a partnership

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Yandex

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is a Russian

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you need to pause right there

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and absorb that

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March 21st that was February 21st March

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21st 2012

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Twitter announced that it had

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140 million users of 40 percent rise in

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just six months with users now sending

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at this point half of them are Russian

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I kid

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on December 18 2012

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Twitter announced it had surpassed

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200 million monthly active users

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by September 2013 Twitter's 200 million

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users sent over 400 million tweets daily

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with nearly 60 percent of the tweets

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sent from mobile devices take note of

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that

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now starting in 2018

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oh oh oh oh let's back up before I

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forget

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all this growth was happening growth

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growth doubling numbers doubling numbers

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growth growth growth

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and then around 2015

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everything stopped well it slowed and it

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slowed greatly

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and all of this according to Fortune and

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Business Insider and other Publications

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that were monitoring Twitter very

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closely as was I

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the

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uh conspiracy behind all of this really

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started to kick in because tweet replies

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deemed by an algorithm

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right

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to be detractive now so

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what does that mean so you've posted

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your Tweet and then you get a reply and

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then an algorithm comes in and looks at

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that reply

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and if it's not part of the conversation

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that was started in the tweet

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right that conversation

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they were hidden

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that was done by an algorithm

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right not a human being

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and you started to see this and you

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could only see those tweets

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through clicking on that button that

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said

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no show more replies

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and that was at the end right that was

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this this element at the bottom

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of the conversation

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that was an algorithm

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creating that and I know a lot of you

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thought at the time and I know that I

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did right that oh it's just too long and

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so therefore you have to click on that

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to see the rest of the review that's not

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why that was there

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that was there because an algorithm

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came in and decided that somebody's

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reply wasn't relevant

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very interesting as opposed to Facebook

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right we've got more you've got uh

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Instagram you've got more and and

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everything is there and you can you can

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clean that up and see newest first and

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most relevant and and all of that stuff

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but that wasn't the case with Twitter

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had an algorithm running

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and reading the tweets

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and the replies

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now on October 21st

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a report was published

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a report that was based on a

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long-running massive scale randomized

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experiment that analyzed millions of

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tweets sent between April 1st

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to August 15

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2020 and that report found that

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Twitter's machine learning algorithm

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Amplified right leaning Politics on

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now what does that mean

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it was making decisions for you about

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what you were going to see and the

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report compared seven countries with

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active Twitter users where data is

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actually available and that is Germany

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Canada the United Kingdom Japan France

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and Spain

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all right now what does that have to do

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with American politics

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researchers use the 2019 Chapel Hill

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expert survey to position parties on

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political ideology

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within each country

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the machine learning algorithms

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personalized 99 of users feeds by

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displaying tweets

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even older Tweets in some cases and

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retweets in other cases from accounts

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the user had not directly followed

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and we still see it today

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but that the algorithm had deemed

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relevant

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very interesting

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that was 99 Twitter

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then also at the same time randomly

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chose one percent of users whose home

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timelines displayed content in Reverse

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chronological order from users that they

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mess him with your head

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what is a Twitter bot

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I think we all have ideas

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right and we hear it all the time

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but

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let me help you out

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Twitter bot is a computer program

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that's what it is

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a Twitter bot

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can automatically tweet

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and it can automatically follow

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all of this is because

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00:28:35,330 --> 00:28:32,000
Twitter's open application programming

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00:28:38,090 --> 00:28:35,340
and its interface and the availability

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of cloud servers

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00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:40,320
make it possible

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00:28:45,590 --> 00:28:43,440
for the Bots to exist

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00:28:48,529 --> 00:28:45,600
right now

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as you hear my voice

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now I know a lot has been tweeted and

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00:28:56,090 --> 00:28:54,059
commented on certainly by Elon Musk

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00:28:59,210 --> 00:28:56,100
lately since his takeover that have you

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00:29:01,970 --> 00:28:59,220
seen less Twitter Bots have you seen

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00:29:03,830 --> 00:29:01,980
less spam have you seen no you haven't

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00:29:08,029 --> 00:29:03,840
there's been no change

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00:29:14,330 --> 00:29:09,890
Twitter Bots

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00:29:18,769 --> 00:29:14,340
can generate creative content they can

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00:29:21,409 --> 00:29:18,779
they can help accompany uh with product

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00:29:23,029 --> 00:29:21,419
updates right so you don't have to have

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00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:23,039
somebody sitting there at a computer

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00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:25,620
you've got an update that happens and it

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00:29:32,750 --> 00:29:28,500
goes on to your your website goes into

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00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:32,760
user manuals and boom it just Aggregates

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00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:35,039
and populates and does everything

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00:29:40,970 --> 00:29:37,380
automatically sends it out

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00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:40,980
okay but malicious Bots

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00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:44,340
can make unpopular people

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00:29:53,510 --> 00:29:51,169
like me

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00:29:55,909 --> 00:29:53,520
but they could also push irrelevant

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00:29:59,510 --> 00:29:55,919
products on users

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00:30:04,370 --> 00:30:01,010
what was

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00:30:06,409 --> 00:30:04,380
I got bombed I I I made a comment on the

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show a couple of weeks ago

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00:30:14,169 --> 00:30:08,940
it's getting bombed by uh

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00:30:17,029 --> 00:30:14,179
like organic bird food companies

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00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:17,039
from Nigeria or something it's like what

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00:30:21,710 --> 00:30:19,740
the where where's this coming from

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00:30:24,830 --> 00:30:21,720
right

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00:30:28,190 --> 00:30:24,840
but they can also spread

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they can also spread spam

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00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:34,620
and they can also spread

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the comments lately

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00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:44,580
that you see if you go and you take the

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time and I did a lot of reading of

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comments and and replies in Twitter in

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preparation for today and it's pretty

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interesting how

577
00:31:01,010 --> 00:30:59,940
um it doesn't matter right left set it

578
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:01,020
doesn't matter

579
00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:04,080
everybody thinks everybody else is is

580
00:31:08,210 --> 00:31:05,760
using Bots

581
00:31:10,330 --> 00:31:08,220
and the answer is that both sides are

582
00:31:12,950 --> 00:31:10,340
and it's probably

583
00:31:19,130 --> 00:31:12,960
not even

584
00:31:21,409 --> 00:31:19,140
more than likely

585
00:31:28,250 --> 00:31:21,419
now

586
00:31:32,269 --> 00:31:28,260
about Elon Musk listen to me

587
00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:32,279
has put the figure at 15 of all Twitter

588
00:31:43,789 --> 00:31:37,740
accounts that's over 50 million accounts

589
00:31:51,350 --> 00:31:46,370
think about that for a second

590
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,169
two out of ten

591
00:32:02,570 --> 00:31:59,810
now remember Yandex

592
00:32:05,870 --> 00:32:02,580
the Russian search engine

593
00:32:09,649 --> 00:32:05,880
that partnered with Twitter

594
00:32:12,289 --> 00:32:09,659
okay now let's all right to ask you to

595
00:32:15,049 --> 00:32:12,299
to park that and to think about that

596
00:32:19,190 --> 00:32:15,059
Yandex

597
00:32:21,470 --> 00:32:19,200
okay that's Russia's version of Google

598
00:32:22,669 --> 00:32:21,480
owned by Putin

599
00:32:27,289 --> 00:32:22,679
okay

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00:32:29,389 --> 00:32:27,299
well even though they partnered with the

601
00:32:34,010 --> 00:32:29,399
andex

602
00:32:36,769 --> 00:32:34,020
Twitter today is completely banned

603
00:32:40,310 --> 00:32:36,779
in Russia

604
00:32:43,370 --> 00:32:40,320
it's also completely banned in China

605
00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:43,380
and Iran well and of course North Korea

606
00:32:47,389 --> 00:32:45,240
too as well but and it's been

607
00:32:49,970 --> 00:32:47,399
intermittently blocked

608
00:32:53,029 --> 00:32:49,980
in Egypt

609
00:32:56,810 --> 00:32:53,039
remember the Arab Spring Egypt Iraq

610
00:33:00,830 --> 00:32:56,820
Nigeria turkey of course Venezuela

611
00:33:04,330 --> 00:33:02,930
these Bots

612
00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:04,340
Twitter

613
00:33:10,730 --> 00:33:08,220
removed more than 88

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00:33:13,070 --> 00:33:10,740
000 propaganda accounts

615
00:33:17,149 --> 00:33:13,080
linked to

616
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:19,610
you gotta see that picture of Elon

617
00:33:24,850 --> 00:33:21,720
you guys saw that right

618
00:33:28,430 --> 00:33:24,860
with Jerry

619
00:33:31,549 --> 00:33:28,440
oh man standing behind a couple of

620
00:33:38,029 --> 00:33:34,970
maybe they were from Cotter Qatar

621
00:33:41,269 --> 00:33:38,039
maybe not I don't know I don't know but

622
00:33:45,430 --> 00:33:44,210
88 000 propaganda counseling to Saudi

623
00:33:51,769 --> 00:33:45,440
Arabia

624
00:33:55,909 --> 00:33:53,750
000 propaganda accounts that were

625
00:33:57,110 --> 00:33:55,919
spreading by his political narratives

626
00:33:59,509 --> 00:33:57,120
for

627
00:34:03,350 --> 00:33:59,519
both China

628
00:34:09,609 --> 00:34:06,409
in December 2019

629
00:34:12,470 --> 00:34:09,619
Twitter removed

630
00:34:14,530 --> 00:34:12,480
5929 accounts for violating their

631
00:34:19,730 --> 00:34:14,540
manipulation policies

632
00:34:24,169 --> 00:34:19,740
the company investigated and attributed

633
00:34:26,690 --> 00:34:24,179
to these accounts to a single state-run

634
00:34:29,750 --> 00:34:26,700
information operation

635
00:34:32,329 --> 00:34:29,760
in Saudi Arabia

636
00:34:36,169 --> 00:34:32,339
that's right

637
00:34:38,030 --> 00:34:36,179
all of those accounts of 5929 were all

638
00:34:42,530 --> 00:34:38,040
connected to

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00:34:47,030 --> 00:34:44,329
now

640
00:34:49,010 --> 00:34:47,040
after all of this

641
00:34:54,349 --> 00:34:49,020
right now

642
00:34:57,230 --> 00:34:54,359
in Elon Musk version of Twitter in 2022

643
00:35:00,470 --> 00:34:57,240
as of December

644
00:35:04,790 --> 00:35:00,480
the top three countries spreading State

645
00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:04,800
linked Twitter misinformation are still

646
00:35:08,810 --> 00:35:07,080
Russia

647
00:35:10,970 --> 00:35:08,820
China

648
00:35:17,569 --> 00:35:10,980
Iran

649
00:35:23,329 --> 00:35:20,210
okay serious face

650
00:35:29,870 --> 00:35:27,170
in November 2020

651
00:35:34,550 --> 00:35:29,880
then achieve technology officer and

652
00:35:37,550 --> 00:35:34,560
future CEO of Twitter parag agrawal

653
00:35:39,050 --> 00:35:37,560
when asked about the protection of free

654
00:35:44,089 --> 00:35:39,060
speech

655
00:35:49,609 --> 00:35:47,450
our role is not to be bound by the First

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00:35:52,910 --> 00:35:49,619
Amendment

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00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:52,920
but our role is to serve a healthy

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00:35:59,630 --> 00:35:54,720
public conversation

659
00:36:04,010 --> 00:35:59,640
Focus Less on thinking about free speech

660
00:36:05,690 --> 00:36:04,020
but thinking about how the times have

661
00:36:08,630 --> 00:36:05,700
changed

662
00:36:15,550 --> 00:36:11,990
in 2019

663
00:36:18,410 --> 00:36:15,560
Twitter was announced to be the 10 most

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00:36:23,510 --> 00:36:18,420
downloaded mobile app

665
00:36:31,849 --> 00:36:23,520
of the decade from 2010

666
00:36:31,859 --> 00:36:34,670
right now

667
00:36:40,130 --> 00:36:37,370
the biggest Twitter account

668
00:36:42,230 --> 00:36:40,140
and and here's the thing before I I go

669
00:36:44,290 --> 00:36:42,240
down this list

670
00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:44,300
foreign

671
00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:48,180
as opposed to other social media net

672
00:36:52,490 --> 00:36:50,220
that includes like telegram but

673
00:36:53,829 --> 00:36:52,500
Instagram and Facebook and just about

674
00:36:56,569 --> 00:36:53,839
anything else that you can talk about

675
00:37:01,550 --> 00:36:56,579
Twitter has become

676
00:37:05,510 --> 00:37:01,560
the de facto news source

677
00:37:09,250 --> 00:37:05,520
from the media and those news outlets

678
00:37:11,349 --> 00:37:09,260
but also countries

679
00:37:14,569 --> 00:37:11,359
heads of state

680
00:37:19,490 --> 00:37:14,579
governments around the world they

681
00:37:22,069 --> 00:37:19,500
announce their news their policy changes

682
00:37:25,550 --> 00:37:22,079
on Twitter

683
00:37:30,170 --> 00:37:25,560
so do corporations product announcements

684
00:37:32,690 --> 00:37:30,180
promotions marketing campaigns it's done

685
00:37:36,109 --> 00:37:32,700
through Twitter

686
00:37:39,109 --> 00:37:36,119
it's importance and how it got to that

687
00:37:40,849 --> 00:37:39,119
point cannot be measured

688
00:37:42,770 --> 00:37:40,859
but also

689
00:37:47,410 --> 00:37:42,780
and it's not

690
00:37:53,210 --> 00:37:49,910
Twitter's biggest accounts and you may

691
00:37:55,370 --> 00:37:53,220
not know this but I'll tell you now

692
00:37:58,329 --> 00:37:55,380
Barack Obama

693
00:38:01,010 --> 00:37:58,339
is number one

694
00:38:02,329 --> 00:38:01,020
hundred and thirty three million

695
00:38:03,770 --> 00:38:02,339
followers

696
00:38:05,990 --> 00:38:03,780
it's pretty extraordinary actually

697
00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:06,000
number two

698
00:38:14,450 --> 00:38:11,450
last week

699
00:38:17,569 --> 00:38:14,460
Elon Musk was sitting at 111 million

700
00:38:21,410 --> 00:38:17,579
followers in the last week he's picked

701
00:38:24,310 --> 00:38:21,420
up 11 million more

702
00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:24,320
Elon musket number two is sitting at

703
00:38:29,870 --> 00:38:27,900
122 million followers

704
00:38:32,990 --> 00:38:29,880
now check this out

705
00:38:36,290 --> 00:38:33,000
number three

706
00:38:41,450 --> 00:38:38,030
that's right

707
00:38:42,770 --> 00:38:41,460
he was ahead of Elon last week he was

708
00:38:44,329 --> 00:38:42,780
number two

709
00:38:47,510 --> 00:38:44,339
he's sitting there number three now this

710
00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:47,520
week at 113 million followers number

711
00:38:51,349 --> 00:38:49,200
four

712
00:38:56,410 --> 00:38:51,359
Katy Perry

713
00:38:59,030 --> 00:38:56,420
109 Million number five Rihanna

714
00:39:02,870 --> 00:38:59,040
107 million

715
00:39:05,170 --> 00:39:02,880
number six Ronaldo that's right football

716
00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:05,180
player soccer

717
00:39:09,710 --> 00:39:07,260
104 million

718
00:39:11,710 --> 00:39:09,720
number seven

719
00:39:17,270 --> 00:39:11,720
Taylor Swift

720
00:39:19,930 --> 00:39:17,280
91 million followers and number eight

721
00:39:21,670 --> 00:39:19,940
Lady Gaga

722
00:39:24,349 --> 00:39:21,680
84

723
00:39:28,250 --> 00:39:24,359
million followers

724
00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:30,650
what does that tell you and and you

725
00:39:34,930 --> 00:39:32,760
think about the influence and some of

726
00:39:37,849 --> 00:39:34,940
the comments that are made and and the

727
00:39:41,210 --> 00:39:37,859
these are the users of Twitter

728
00:39:44,870 --> 00:39:41,220
Justin Bieber Katy Perry Rihanna Taylor

729
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,250
think about that

730
00:39:54,589 --> 00:39:52,150
but it is a global influence

731
00:39:57,050 --> 00:39:54,599
and with all of this all of the

732
00:39:59,329 --> 00:39:57,060
information that I have given you

733
00:40:02,990 --> 00:39:59,339
tonight

734
00:40:04,870 --> 00:40:03,000
Twitter it's Global influence it's

735
00:40:08,510 --> 00:40:04,880
handling of information

736
00:40:09,530 --> 00:40:08,520
dealing with ideas like freedom of

737
00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:09,540
speech

738
00:40:17,930 --> 00:40:10,820
information

739
00:40:19,190 --> 00:40:17,940
accounts advertising Global actors State

740
00:40:22,190 --> 00:40:19,200
actors

741
00:40:25,790 --> 00:40:22,200
as well as code writing engineering

742
00:40:27,410 --> 00:40:25,800
design all of that

743
00:40:34,370 --> 00:40:27,420
was done

744
00:40:38,750 --> 00:40:36,470
just one week after taking control of

745
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:38,760
Twitter Elon Musk began laying off half

746
00:40:45,950 --> 00:40:43,200
of that Workforce we all know that now

747
00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:45,960
yesterday

748
00:40:51,349 --> 00:40:47,940
Twitter announced that it was Banning

749
00:40:54,349 --> 00:40:51,359
users linking to what were referred to

750
00:40:57,290 --> 00:40:54,359
as prohibited platforms this was

751
00:41:01,670 --> 00:40:57,300
yesterday including Facebook Mastodon

752
00:41:04,370 --> 00:41:01,680
Instagram Trump's truth social as well

753
00:41:07,069 --> 00:41:04,380
as third party link aggregators such as

754
00:41:09,829 --> 00:41:07,079
link tree

755
00:41:11,089 --> 00:41:09,839
six hours six hours after his

756
00:41:14,390 --> 00:41:11,099
announcement

757
00:41:17,329 --> 00:41:14,400
musk tweeted quote going forward there

758
00:41:19,790 --> 00:41:17,339
will be a vote for major policy changes

759
00:41:21,650 --> 00:41:19,800
my apologies won't happen again end

760
00:41:25,430 --> 00:41:21,660
quote

761
00:41:32,690 --> 00:41:28,730
he also tweeted a poll yesterday

762
00:41:35,450 --> 00:41:32,700
asking users if he should remain ahead

763
00:41:37,390 --> 00:41:35,460
of Twitter promising to abide by its

764
00:41:41,630 --> 00:41:37,400
results in which

765
00:41:44,870 --> 00:41:41,640
57.5 percent of the 17.5 million votes

766
00:41:46,849 --> 00:41:44,880
were in favor of him stepping down that

767
00:41:52,730 --> 00:41:46,859
poll closed earlier today that's right

768
00:41:52,740 --> 00:41:56,390
now here's the question

769
00:42:02,870 --> 00:41:58,550
would Elon

770
00:42:06,410 --> 00:42:04,190
right

771
00:42:08,450 --> 00:42:06,420
would he just walk walk away after

772
00:42:10,250 --> 00:42:08,460
blowing it up in just two short months

773
00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:10,260
would he do that

774
00:42:14,870 --> 00:42:12,720
I don't know

775
00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:14,880
but we'll soon find out

776
00:42:19,849 --> 00:42:17,760
you know because if he is as quick to

777
00:42:22,190 --> 00:42:19,859
respond to his

778
00:42:25,310 --> 00:42:22,200
his poll from yesterday as he was with

779
00:42:27,349 --> 00:42:25,320
other poll results over the last month

780
00:42:30,650 --> 00:42:27,359
and right now nobody can predict the

781
00:42:33,530 --> 00:42:30,660
future or have any idea or opinion on

782
00:42:35,510 --> 00:42:33,540
what effect vaporizing 44 billion

783
00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:35,520
dollars will have on Elon nobody knows

784
00:42:40,250 --> 00:42:38,160
or his investors nobody knows or his

785
00:42:44,690 --> 00:42:40,260
Banks nobody knows

786
00:42:47,930 --> 00:42:44,700
and nobody knows if he actually cares

787
00:42:51,109 --> 00:42:47,940
now if this does happen

788
00:42:53,329 --> 00:42:51,119
and he just walks away

789
00:42:55,069 --> 00:42:53,339
what will happen to the company and its

790
00:42:58,730 --> 00:42:55,079
platform

791
00:43:01,309 --> 00:42:58,740
or what's left of it for that matter

792
00:43:03,710 --> 00:43:01,319
will it be sold

793
00:43:05,569 --> 00:43:03,720
will it die on the vine

794
00:43:08,809 --> 00:43:05,579
I don't know

795
00:43:16,309 --> 00:43:08,819
be

796
00:43:17,870 --> 00:43:16,319
biggest media Giant in the history of

797
00:43:21,230 --> 00:43:17,880
mankind

798
00:43:27,530 --> 00:43:25,370
will it be the critical puzzle piece

799
00:43:29,150 --> 00:43:27,540
of Skynet

800
00:43:31,250 --> 00:43:29,160
ER

801
00:43:35,750 --> 00:43:31,260
starlink

802
00:43:37,069 --> 00:43:35,760
I don't know one thing is for sure

803
00:43:38,450 --> 00:43:37,079
Russia

804
00:43:41,150 --> 00:43:38,460
China

805
00:43:44,030 --> 00:43:41,160
and Saudi Arabia

806
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:44,040
need Twitter to survive

807
00:43:50,089 --> 00:43:46,800
they don't want Twitter to go away there

808
00:43:53,089 --> 00:43:50,099
is no replacement for it

809
00:43:53,099 --> 00:43:58,190
they all have money at stake here

810
00:44:06,410 --> 00:44:00,230
I changed my mind Twitter ain't going

811
00:44:06,420 --> 00:44:09,670
ah

812
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,030
with that

813
00:44:20,150 --> 00:44:16,910
I'm going to let you go this is Fade to

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00:44:22,790 --> 00:44:20,160
Black I am your host Jimmy Church

815
00:44:25,130 --> 00:44:22,800
it's been a crazy ride it's been a crazy

816
00:44:28,730 --> 00:44:25,140
couple of weeks it's been a crazy couple

817
00:44:30,410 --> 00:44:28,740
of months I don't know what elon's

818
00:44:35,750 --> 00:44:30,420
announcement is going to be tomorrow

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00:44:39,650 --> 00:44:37,849
I'll report back to you Fade to Black is

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