But you never know with elon musk. Theres a lot going on, so i thought this might be a Good Opportunity to answer some questions and maybe get some feedback, too. What should we be doing different . I know the bbc, for example, was not thrilled about being labelled state affiliated media. N ot exa ctly. I was going to get that later, but lets go for it now. It has officially objected to that term. Do you want to respond to it . Yeah, yeah. Our goal is simply to be as truthful and accurate as possible, so i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think is perhaps not too objectionable. Were trying to be accurate. I am not the bbc, but. Publicly funded is how the bbc describes itself. So, that would be accurate. If we use the same words that the bbc uses to describe itself, that, presumably, would be ok. I am not asking you for a yes or no, because you are not running the bbc per se, but it seems to pass a reasonability test. So youre going to change those labels
so called smart motorways which use measures such as variable speed limits to improve traffic flows. fourteen stretches of carriageway have already been paused or cancelled because of concerns over costs and safety. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, the interview: elon musk. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk. let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how are you doing? really nice to meet you, too. we are about to go live, very surprisingly, we only just found this out, on twitter, that that is elon musk. we didn t know about that, but you never know with elon musk. there s a lot going on, so i thought this might be a good opportunity to answer some questions and maybe get some fe
but you never know with elon musk. there s a lot going on, so i thought this might be a good opportunity to answer some questions and maybe get some feedback, too. what should we be doing different? i know the bbc, for example, was not thrilled about being labelled state affiliated media. n ot exa ctly. i was going to get that later, but let s go for it now. it has officially objected to that term. do you want to respond to it? yeah, yeah. our goal is simply to be as truthful and accurate as possible, so i think we are adjusting the label to be publicly funded, which i think is perhaps not too objectionable. we re trying to be accurate. i am not the bbc, but. publicly funded is how the bbc describes itself. so, that would be accurate. if we use the same words that the bbc uses to describe itself, that, presumably, would be ok. i am not asking you for a yes or no, because you are not running the bbc per se, but it seems to pass a reasonability test. so you re going to change
and we re doing it with a small fraction of the original headcount. you mentioned outages there. there have been several, and we have actually spoken to an engineer who works at twitter, and they said that the plumbing is broken here and it is on fire and there could be problems at any minute. do you accept that? i mean, there have been a few outages, but not for very long. and it s currently working fine. it doesn t keep you up at night that twitter might go offline again? at this point we ve got a pretty good handle on what makes twitter work, and we are also doing it with two data centres instead of three. so we used to have three data centres, we shut down one of them. we are actually at two thirds of the prior compute capability. we ve made so many improvements to the core algorithm and in some cases we ve improved the core algorithm by 80%, so the actual cpu