Algorithms. The information war is fought on a battlefield of so much data that AI and algorithms are relied upon by all parties to stay above water.
Algorithms are just a set of instructions which can be executed through formulas or stringers like the ones Q revealed.
These stringers and formulas must have their values defined before they can be executed. But when the value is undefined, it's a variable written as X.
So when blackhat AI tries to execute an algorithmic attack against Twitter like a bot campaign or internal sabotage, it fails because it cannot define the target value. Its template formula already uses X as a variable, so how can it recognize a target called X? This creates a blind spot for any AI using universal algebraic rules.
Let me know your thoughts, especially you math or programming nerds.
Programmer here. I don't see how naming a company "X" will break bot code. The name of the company would simply be the value of a string that I could store in a variable of any name.
For example, if I wanted to target multiple companies, I could store the company names in an array, loop through them and execute the attack for each of them.
My guess is, if the code has been deployed to a myriad places under different cover, and the code is not easily redeployable, then changing the site name can be a way to get rid of these final set of bots.
Think bot nets that have been used to run algos. Assuming the bot net itself has been taken control of, but the malicious algos still running on the machines are not orphaned and will keep running their algos against "twitter.com", with no way to stop it unless the owner of the machine reinstalls their computer.
This could be a legitimate case where changing the company name might be useful. Of course, it means that "twitter.com" needs ot be completely retired.
However, on the other hand, the same could have been achieved by changing the fomatting of the tweets.
Latent bots had crossed my mind too, but like you said, the twitter.com URL hasn't changed.
Variables and strings are different things in code. You can do
And all of them mean different things and will not confuse any algorithm.
However, I think your thinking is in the right direction. Perhaps changing the name of the company from twitter.com to x.com (assuming the old twitter.com will be abandoned), scripts already in the field that are hardcoded with the site name might stop working, depending on how its all implemented.
Still, quite an interesting idea Anon. Something definitely worth thinking about
Don't be too quick to think it won't work. Remember that guy who chose null as his license plate for a joke but then went through DMV hell when their database kept kicking him out?
Well, he had SpaceX and I guess he wants to rebrand everything he owns under this letter.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/25/entertainment/grimes-musk-baby-name-tweak-scli-intl/index.html
Just weird...
It certainly makes it harder for actual people to search for things specifically on Twitter. You can't really search for "dog and cat do something on X" like you could with "dog and cat do something on Twitter" because X is nowhere near as specific as Twitter.
Perhaps that also ruins any search cooking algorithms that would specifically target Twitter. IDK.
dog and cat do something site:x.com
Got me there... I'll use that, but actually I doubt most people know that syntax.
A famous brand changing its name is really unusual since brand recognition is so important. Coca-Cola won’t even change its font, and it’s been probably one hundred years.
So when Facebook said they were now “Meta” and replaced their logo with that droopy loop, it seemed super odd to me. I started thinking about President Trump’s executive order about confiscating the wealth and assets of any individual or company participating in child sex trafficking. Was Facebook confiscated so Zuckerberg started a new company called Meta to keep the money laundering and child trafficking going?
Then all these other companies started torching their own brands too. Disney. Bud Light. Bed, Bath & Beyond. NFL. FoxNews. It was like they were all intentionally trying to fail. Very strange. Could it be because ownership of the assets had been swapped and the people still working there are now being instructed to bring those companies down to make them worthless as assets?
Now Twitter, a brand Musk paid billions for, is being swapped to X. Again, very strange.
Like what’s next? Ford suddenly decides they want to be known as Dorf? NBC says they are now PeacockTV? Netflix rebrands as MovieSpace?
Agreed, just as strings were cut for people who white hats now control, the same could be done with companies.
I looked at the big, silly bright X on the top of the building and thought, 'marks the spot.'
Could be some Truth to that. Shenanigans at Twatter for sometime, right?
My opinion is that he has X'd Twitter out aka cancelled. So it is now known as X or the X Twitter.
Meanwhile, X users are still getting suspended/shadowbanned.
The way I see it is that Twitter probably had some NDA's or language where it would make it impossible to drop all the Twitter files. Declass will be going through Twitter as we know the MSM won't report anything. Rebranding to X most likely changes these legal obligations and/or contracts. Also important to remember for all the Q 'influencers' up in arms on shadowbans etc that the DS still has secret back channels they had set up on Twitter...
Very good points.
I fail to see how that is so.
For instance: if I needed to download a video from youtube, of course you could use the lazy user solution by going to some website and download it.
OR
you could use some hard code, of course: yt-dlp -f 22 youtube.com/watcht?v=12345abCD
the latter part: watcht?v=12345abCD could be represented by $y and the site itself by $x. 22 is the quality of the video and can be represented by $a the operator -f by $b and the programm called by $P.
$P $b $a $x$y. This is the same as a hardcoded: yt-dlp -f 22 youtube.com/watcht?v=12345abCD, except you need to pass the data points into the containers.
It is perfectly feasible to scrape the link, use whatever program to breakup the link into pieces, for instance with awk, gawk, python, whatever is your fancy, and put these data points into a container, either as a variable or a string. I am not saying this a smart. It's actually bullshit. All I am saying this is what you could do, to exemplify what happens when using variables and strings.
An Algo is simply a "if this then that"-kind of thing.
if $y=5 then print {$y + 5};
if$y="Trump then print {4AM talking point: Indictment of }$y;
You get the picture, I guess. SO, although it look appealing to think like you do, in essence, it is rather useless.
Good explanation.
Some good responses here. Even those shooting down the idea still explore the logic. It's why I posted. Thanks Anons.