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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Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
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#172Aaaand the issues turned into a shitpost
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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...
That wasn't the same, clicking the sparkle button still included a lot of recommended tweets. The only effect was that it made the timeline chronological and included all tweets from people you follow.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
That makes sense; I guess that means Elon is considered a "group" now.
I know there's a joke about this regarding his ego and there's certainly some truth in that, however it's also quite believable that after a deployment he might have noticed the popularity of his tweets going down (since he no doubt checks his reach), so I can kind of understand how he might see "republicans", "democrats" and "celebrities_it_makes_sense_to_check_this_with_my_account_as_i_am_a_very_active_user" as cor…
We don't need to speculate on this. It sounds like he did actually fire engineers over his tweets getting less engagement than he wanted.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-...
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#175there may be a hint of which elections were of interest:
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
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#176I 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...
I'd love to see the exact date author_is_elon was added. Too bad they didn't publish the commit history
I think around mid February https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
\* \* These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are \* serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users. \* This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes \* that negatively impacts one group over others. \* From: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
So now engineers working on the algo can ensure their launches won't lower Elon's tweet visibility. Looks like those remaining at Twitter have a knack for corporate survival.
> Looks like those remaining at Twitter have a knack for corporate survival.
If Green Cards quotas suddenly became available how many would stay?
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#178I'm supposed to be going out in 20 mins....
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#179You gotta hand it to Elon - he actually did it.
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#180Squashing the commit history before releasing it was an interesting (and completely predictable) decision.