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Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by valarauko »

EamonnMR wrote: post #63
LiquidPolymer wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my “following” tab (on the phone app) , I’m still getting recommendations for bomb throwers I don’t follow. Am I weird? It’s like an unhinged relative. Not pleasant. Edit: I reversed “for you” and “following” in my original reply.

I sometimes get these as push notifications with my username added to them.

I find these notifications so confusing - at first glance they look like DMs or mentions to me. I don't follow these people, nor were they RT by anybody I know.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by meghan_rain »

jonathanmayer wrote: post #45

Context: I teach at Princeton and study social media and recommendation systems. From a very quick skim of the repositories, this appears to be quite limited transparency. The documentation gives a decent high-level overview of how Tweet recommendation works—no surprises—and the code tracks that roadmap. Those are meaningful positive steps. But the underlying policies and models are almost entirely missing (there are…

So why did they opensource it?

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by rco8786 »

So as expected, there is exactly nothing that favors posters from one side of the political spectrum. I don't expect that this article will do anything to calm down those who are convinced otherwise though.

Well written article, from an engineer's perspective.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by paxys »

Since this is what most people are going to want to see:

> We also took additional steps to ensure that user safety and privacy would be protected, including our decision not to release training data or model weights associated with the Twitter algorithm at this point.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by krapp »

jeron wrote: post #96
krapp wrote: post #66

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The repo suggests it's about tracking engagement metrics[0], so Team Red people see more Team Red content and vice versa. Nothing nefarious. [0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

You say it’s not nefarious but isn’t that how echo chambers are created?

I don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want.

But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by dmonitor »

madeofpalk wrote: post #65
infogulch wrote: post #34

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Twitter has this now. The home page is split into two tabs: "For you", the algorithmic feed, and "Following", the reverse chronological feed of just who you follow.

Twitter has always had "chronological timeline" behind a confusing "sparkle" button (except for a brief period a few months back where they removed it, or always defaulted to back to algo timeline? and then restored it a week later) They called it "Latest Tweets" https://web.archive.org/web/20200205092104/https://help.twit...

immediately getting rid of the sparkle button is one of the few reasons i still have a small amount of faith in elon’s vision of twitter
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