INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- The Cleveland Cavaliers are mentally preparing themselves to be without Kevin Love for the remainder of the postseason, with general manager David Griffin saying Tuesday it is "highly unlikely" that the All-Star forward returns.
"The damage to his shoulder is extensive," Griffin said of Love, who dislocated his left shoulder in the Cavaliers' close-out win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. "This is not a situation where we are expecting that he will be available for any of (the rest of the postseason), and we are in the process of gathering information and seeing what the exact right n... Kevin Love of Cleveland Cavaliers 'highly unlikely' to return this postseason
"The damage to his shoulder is extensive," Griffin said of Love, who dislocated his left shoulder in the Cavaliers' close-out win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday. "This is not a situation where we are expecting that he will be available for any of (the rest of the postseason), and we are in the process of gathering information and seeing what the exact right n... Kevin Love of Cleveland Cavaliers 'highly unlikely' to return this postseason
...est takeaway here, from a high level, is that Twitter is sacrificing revenue in the short term to make for better-quality ads, which it thinks will matter in the long term. That’s the high level. The in-the-weeds answer involves the mechanisms for how ads get bought and sold, and how Twitter monetizes them. Basically, Twitter said it had enough ads to show.
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Noto says Twitter looks at a lot of them internally. Daily active user is one, but it could be misleading. Tweets per day, searches, DMs, retweets — I mean, this is everything you can do on Twitter. Noto says they are all growing. But there isn’t one be-all and end-all metric.
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Costolo mentions the problem with retention. This is a problem where people sign up for Twitter, but they don’t stick around. There has been plenty of reasons discussed, including how difficult it is for new users to get their arms around the product. One effort, Costolo says, is instant timelines. So new people aren’t standing in an empty hall wondering what to do.
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Twitter retired its Discover tab a few weeks back, replacing it with a more detailed trends section where trending topics now include a short, computer-generated description.
And over the weekend, one of those descriptions was rather unfortunate and completely inappropriate: “Ugly Feminists Freak Out Over #FeministsAreUgly Hashtag.” The #FeministsAreUgly trend first kicked off in the fall, and resurfaced this weekend as a way for women to dispel stereotypes about what feminism looks like.
Unfortunately, Twitter’s algorithm didn’t understand the context. Twitter’s New Trend Descriptions Need Some Fine-Tuning | Re/code
And over the weekend, one of those descriptions was rather unfortunate and completely inappropriate: “Ugly Feminists Freak Out Over #FeministsAreUgly Hashtag.” The #FeministsAreUgly trend first kicked off in the fall, and resurfaced this weekend as a way for women to dispel stereotypes about what feminism looks like.
Unfortunately, Twitter’s algorithm didn’t understand the context. Twitter’s New Trend Descriptions Need Some Fine-Tuning | Re/code
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