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I wonder what the "author_is_elon", "author_is_power_user", "author_is_democrat", and "author_is_republican" labels are for [1]. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixe...
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I'd be nothing without Twitter. It's had more impact on my life than any other platform. I got lucky, but luck was only part of it. Being able to DM people is incredible. It's the AOL Messenger of 2023. If it went offline, it'd be a terrible loss.
It's reassuring to know that billion dollar tech companies write CI exactly like I do: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/ci/ci.sh Permalink: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
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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
- Lists as tabs
- _Heavily_ reduced spam
- Can look at Twitter without logging in
I'm likely missing some other obvious/uncontroversially good changes.
I still use Twitter and plan to continue using it. I am satisfied with most of his changes.
"Today, the For You timeline consists of 50% In-Network Tweets and 50% Out-of-Network Tweets on average, though this may vary from user to user." I have spent significant effort creating a network and there you go choosing to ignore my efforts by putting in 50% of crap-I-don't-want-to-see. That is why I despise your algorithm.
> "Today, the For You timeline consists of 50% In-Network Tweets and 50% Out-of-Network Tweets on average, though this may vary from user to user." I have spent significant effort creating a network and there you go choosing to ignore my efforts by putting in 50% of crap-I-don't-want-to-see. That is why I despise your algorithm. This is just one feed (the "For You" recommendations feed), they also have the "following…
Great pull request here which improves the algorithm: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/17
That would be great (unweighting bluechecks) but they actually plan to go in the other direction: Starting April 15th non-bluechecks won't show up in the "For you" section (the algorithm timeline) at all. Unpaid users are being written completely out of the algo. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1640502698549075972
Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks! And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.
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Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks! And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.
Judging by the many "issues" already, it might have been a bad idea to release on a friday, though.