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Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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The basic premise with algorithmic feeds is that users are lazy and don't do a lot of active discovery, so their follow lists tend to be pretty small. The algorithm can show them a mix of content where some of it is sourced from their existing follow/like graph (e.g. followed by someone you follow) and therefore likely to be interesting, and some is pushed on other less user-centric grounds. (E.g. in Twitter's case:…

Ok but that does not explain why you would actively remove content from their follow graphs. Sure, perhaps you can use the follow graphs to see what other stuff the user might be interested in and serve that, but why actively prevent the user from seeing posts that he has explicitly said he wants to see?

The first big algorithmic timeline I remember was Facebook, and it came at a time when the biggest complaint was "all I ever see on my feed is what people had for lunch". The idea was so you'll see the wedding pictures you care about but not the lunch photos you don't.

Re: Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless

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There are two tabs on the Twitter ios app. The first is called “For You,” and the next “Following.” The first appears to be randomised or from The Algorithm, but as I far as I can tell, it’s mostly random. The second also seems randomised but from people you follow.

> The second also seems randomised but from people you follow. That’s not true. The following tab is only showing you who do you follow with posts in chronological order

I don’t see every post from everyone I follow even if they’ve just posted. So there’s some filter on that tab as well.
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