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Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by dazc »

seydor wrote: post #876
simonsarris wrote: post #80

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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

Followed users will still show But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts. This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it

Like that wasn't already happening?

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by dazc »

bradly wrote: post #136
simonsarris wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I believe LeBron James said recently he isn't going to waste his money on a blue checkmark, so it should be interesting to see what stays and what goes.

I had to search who this person is, and I still could not care less.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by dazc »

6d6b73 wrote: post #240
zaroth wrote: post #169

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LeBron doesn’t get $84 of value from Twitter? Definitely not a political statement going on there.

Like it or not but it's the twitter that gets value from celebrities. How many people are on social networks jusy so see what their fav celebrites are doing?

What their fav celebrites say -v- what 'the media' says?

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by seydor »

dazc wrote: post #901
seydor wrote: post #876

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Followed users will still show But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts. This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it

Like that wasn't already happening?

not with blue marks

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by coldcode »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #838
evolve2k wrote: post #639

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Elons reply “I only learned about it now!”. What a crock of shit. We literally went through reporting a few months back where he was clearly instructing the team to make sure his tweets always come up, for everyone.

If I remember correctly, he noticed that his account with 100,000,000 plus followers was only getting 40,000 or so views. This lead to a Twitter engineer saying maybe his content wasn't interesting enough to get views and getting fired. And later on Musk said that they found a bug in the fanout system because his account was so big it basically broke things and they fixed it. I remember everyone agreeing with the Twi…

You don't, at least for me, I have 5700 followers and most posts (with art) only see 200-500 impressions, whereas a year ago I was getting 3000 on average. The Following tab is clearly (at least for me) not in timeline order, so most of my followers never even know I posted anything. Since I post art most of my followers are artists, so you would think they would see them. Impressions (which are Twitter putting tweets in a timeline so that people scroll by them) are not under the control of the poster. Likes per impression for me are up, so interaction is higher which is supposed to increase how often tweets are shown, but only timely retweets seem to help any.

I am trying to figure out how the algorithm decides on what to show in the Following tab, but the code is way too big to analyze without being able to run it and look at logging/metrics/stats.

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

toxik wrote: post #867
koolba wrote: post #90

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...

I can code golf that script #!/bin/true Bam.

$ ln -s /bin/true ci.sh

Re: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

mullingitover wrote: post #413
nonethewiser wrote: post #352

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Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. The smart move would be silent on the policy change, pay, and support rival platforms as they can. Instead they will eventually pay and look like they lost.

> Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. It's wild hubris for twitter to try to invoice/penalize the very users and organizations that make twitter anything but insolvent. There should be money exchanged here, but it should be flowing generously and most importantly in the other direction .

maybe they can make their own twitter and give themselves a big blue check mark there
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