Name: 【TED】Del Harvey: The strangeness of scale at Twitter
Uploaded: 2014-12-25T07:36:23.000Z
Duration: 9 min 20 s
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Let's talk about what scale looks like at Twitter.

we saw more than two million new tweets each day

Now, the vast majority of activity on Twitter

My job is to root out and prevent activity that might.

of activity on Twitter puts no one in harm's way.

those rare situations that are unlikely to occur,

Maybe people are documenting travel landmarks

or tweeting about a concert they're attending,

or sharing pictures of cute baby animals.

The sheer scale of what we're dealing with

And I have to figure out what they're doing,

why, and whether or not there's risk involved,

that I've run into during my time at Twitter --

of situations that at first seemed cut and dried,

but the truth of the matter was something

After all, why would you
want to receive the message,

was also often a common greeting between friends,

as well as being a popular "Breaking Bad" reference.

it's technically just an accurate greeting.

While this is a mockup I put
together using my account,

We should just automatically suspend accounts

Turns out there's some exceptions to that rule.

Turns out that that message
could also be a notification

you signed up for that the International
Space Station is passing overhead