I thought so a while ago rare was a month in which Twitter, Facebook, or another social network didn’t suffer some significant failure. I’m not talking about things like a specific service drop and the like, which is understandable given the technical complexity of the entire infrastructure your service is based on. No, I’m referring to failures that affect user experience, privacy and security, in short, the ones that usually give people something to talk about, you know what I mean.

The fact is, I remember thinking about it and coming to the conclusion that maybe I’m overstepping, that I’m being too critical, and that social networks aren’t doing as bad, based on their failure, as my reflection would suggest. .oh now I see how innocent and well meaning I was at the time. One mistake a month? More like a bug in a weekto the extent that it has become news that for a week all social networks are working well.

Since the major social networks, Facebook and Twitter, have seen their parent companies, the failure rate has increased significantly They proceeded with massive layoffs, among other things, limits engineering teams, those responsible for the code that makes these networks work. We are talking about a gigantic code base, which of course needs constant maintenance, and the need for those responsible (who know best) to know how to act immediately in case of any failure.

I’ve lost count of the number of Twitter blunders we’ve heard about over the past few months, and now there’s one more to the list. As we can read in Business Insider, Twitter had to disable autocomplete for searches after displaying inappropriate results. This problem seems to have been happening for the past few weeks and some of the people who have experienced it have a very bad taste in their mouths.

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ll know that when you start typing in the search box, it automatically suggests possible ways to complete what you’ve typed. This feature has been very common on a large number of websites for years. the problem is Until now, the proposal type has been filtered to leave out those that may be inappropriatesuch as violent content. Specifically, according to the reports, the search engine began displaying content such as animal cruelty and images of mass shootings.

It’s one thing for Twitter to allow (or not allow) the posting of, for example, pictures or video of someone abusing an animal by killing it, but it’s another thing when every user starts typing a word into a search engine. “cat and auto-completion of design content like a “cat in a blender”. Here again we have an example of how the massive layoffs at Twitter had a very negative impact on the functioning of the social network.