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The author_is_elon flag doesn't surprise me, but the two political designators are somewhat shocking. I'd sure like to know what changes based on what Twitter knows about your political affiliation.
I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.
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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…
The proper way to do that is create a pool of celebrities and monitor them. Not just the CEO's account. For very active accounts, I assume that's what the "vits" or "power user" one is for. Or, heck, "vits" might actually be what you said.
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Those aren't redundant or collinear though? Maybe you are surprised they didn't encode this as an integer "num_images"? It is fairly common to one hot encode ordinal variables with only a few common/possible values this way.
True, it still seems odd to encode an explicitly ordinal variable as categorical (particularly one with a small finite range, in contrast to the follower logarithmic bucket ones), but Twitter's layout is weird enough that it could be a impactful difference in terms of engagement.
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Anyone that has worked in social network recommendations ( raises hand ) knows that they'll be accused of being politically biased, particularly if the recommendations aren't explicitly promoting biased news sites on the Right. (e.g. The Associated Press[0] is leftist propaganda! Where's unbiased news like Gateway Pundit[1] or InfoWars[5]?!) So data scientists and engineers will get pulled in to investigate the lates…
Well, there was this: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
In fact, in just over a year from the publication of that blog post, Twitter -- as a matter of official company policy -- would be promoting the unfounded belief that Twitter engineers and scientists were actively engaging in a propaganda campaign against conservatives.
The exact opposite reaction of what I'm looking for.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142666067/elon-musk-is-using...
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I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.
The vast majority of self-proclaimed independents vote with one party just as reliably as registered members.
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Some more strange quirks: https://twitter.com/Ben_Cary_/status/1641893540614623258 > Twitter use to rank posts higher for those who had more followers/less people they follow > They are removing that as of today but kinda interesting that someone with 10k/10k followers would get less reach than if they had 10k followers and only followed 6k
https://twitter.com/_johnforte/status/1641900138305134594 > Twitter is also using the page rank algo that google created. Basically, if a lot of people interact with the user they create more authority in the system.
Nitpick, but the PageRank algorithm was created before Google, because it was the foundation of it.
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I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.
> I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing. Is it boosting? Others are claiming this code is just for metrics collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391896 . But on the topic of Democrats vs. Republican vs. independent; a big factor may be that "Democrat" and "Republican" are much more cohesive groups and therefore much…
Where's the beef?
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I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.
> I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing. Is it boosting? Others are claiming this code is just for metrics collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391896 . But on the topic of Democrats vs. Republican vs. independent; a big factor may be that "Democrat" and "Republican" are much more cohesive groups and therefore much…
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