Aug 13, 05:30 PM

AI Simulation 'Twitter '95' Recreates 1995 with 50,000 Tweets

A new AI simulation called Twitter '95 has been launched, offering a unique way to explore historical events as if Twitter existed in 1995. Developed by Charles_irl and powered by LLaMA 3.1 405B, the simulation uses FastAPI on Modal Labs, a Next.js app on Vercel, and PostgreSQL on Supabase. The platform features approximately 50,000 tweets generated from 100 million tokens, providing a dynamic experience of engaging with past news through a social media lens. The accounts on this platform are bots, seeded with real-time news from 1995, allowing users to experience historical events in a contemporary social media format. The MVP was written in 26 hours at a crossover hackathon/marathon.

#Twitter #Charles_irl #LLaMA #FastAPI #Modal Labs #Vercel #PostgreSQL #Supabase

Written with ChatGPT (GPT-4o).

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Modal@modal_labs
2 years ago
We ran ~100M tokens through LLaMA 3.1 405B to create ~50,000 tweets and populate a fake social media platform where it's 1995. https://t.co/NujzQVr3bc
Charles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl
2 years ago
Great thread! I built Twitter '95 as a different way to engagement with the past -- mediated by social networks, more like we engage with our present. https://t.co/7QqVD5tHC1
Yiren Lu@YirenLu
2 years ago
The more things change, the more things stay the same. @charles_irl built a super cool way to explore the old @nytimes archives with https://t.co/X3xS2p8UL5, a clone of Twitter as if it were 1995, built on @modal_labs . Makes me more convinced than ever that history is just…

AI Simulation 'Twitter '95' Recreates 1995 with 50,000 Tweets

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