Nikita Bier
head of product @x, advisor @solana, venture partner @lightspeedvp, ex-founder @gasappteam (acq by discord), ex-founder @thetbhapp (acq by facebook)
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We are rolling out more detection for automation & spam (and a lot more to come). If a human is not tapping on the screen, the account and all associated accounts will likely be suspended—even if you’re just experimenting. While we aim to support legitimate use-cases of agents, this will take some time to do properly. For now, we recommend holding off on plugging in your bots. If it’s critical, you can use the official API.
POV: Your servers go offline and this is the only guy in the company who knows how to fix it
I went under anaesthesia for a medical procedure today. When it was done, I needed to get back into the office, but they said I need a driver to pick me up since I was just sedated. And then they asked me what my job was and I replied: “Oh I drive a school bus.”
X is the best source for financial news -- and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here. We are building Smart Cashtags that allow you to specify the exact asset (or smart contract) when posting a ticker. From Timeline, users will be able to tap them to see its real-time price along with all mentions of that asset. We're aiming to collect feedback as we iterate toward a public release next month.
People come X to get a pulse on humanity. Because of that, the platform must make every effort to resist anything that misrepresents or adulterates that pulse. There is nothing more unsettling than expecting you’re reading the words of a human -- only to find it was a machine, or an account operating at the direction of an undisclosed commercial or governmental entity. In the AI era, our product, policies, and approach will need to evolve meaningfully. Some things may not work, but we intend to employ every available tool and strategy to secure the global town square.
We have more new products & features to launch than days remaining in this month 🥰
Prediction: In less than 90 days, all channels that we thought were safe from spam & automation will be so flooded that they will no longer be usable in any functional sense: iMessage, phone calls, Gmail. And we will have no way to stop it.
I wanted to build a video editor into X like other social apps. I had expected it to take 3 months of engineering time. Today I decided to try prototyping it myself. I one-shotted a full in-browser editor in 15 minutes. It felt like I could replace the entire Adobe software suite by Sunday. Then I asked myself: will videos even be edited manually in 3 months? Chatbots can do reasonably well now. Product development is getting extraordinarily difficult when the world is changing so fast.
If you have Super Bowl tickets, my DMs are open
With any social network: If you want to catalyze a new behavior, you have to overcorrect for a short period of time, especially for a long tenured userbase. (Please bear with Article Armageddon)
Ladies and gentlemen: Over the next week, we’ll be launching a handful of updates for our creators & power users. To kick things off, we’re opening up X Articles to all Premium subscribers. We’ve seen some incredible articles go viral over the last few weeks — and we’d love to see more writers posting on X. More to come.
A lot of product management for a social network is declaring policy objectives so that businesses & apps don’t build in a direction that is misaligned with the platform. Most times this doesn’t require actual changes to the product but instead, just expressing the preferences & values of the network. The Federal Reserve, basically.
We're rolling out a few updates to video this week. We're starting with a new immersive video player, which badly needed a refresh. Available on iOS today.
I sat down with @mignano in my hometown to share stories about my childhood and what life is like when you’re customer support for 500 million people.
Algorithm is pristine tonight. Banger after banger. What a time to be alive.
Product management is the art of the writing the least amount of code for the greatest benefit to your users.
Ladies and gentlemen: We’re giving $1 million to the top article posted on X. You have 2 weeks. It's time to write.
