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"This feature isn't available to everyone yet." How do they determine who to make this feature available to? Only demographics, or some other parameter?
by r_singh 10y ago
"This feature isn't available to everyone yet."
How do they determine who to make this feature available to?
Only demographics, or some other parameter?
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoFacebook does gradual releases. One can guess this is available only in the US (or even just a part of the US) for now.
- idw 10y agoIt's launched in the US, Germany, and France so far. It started in the US, and Germany and France both have elections coming up. Launching depends at least on having factcheckers or mainstream media outlets doing factchecking active in that country and willing to join the scheme. (I work for a factchecker in a different country).
- mrdrozdov 10y agoI'd expect they have a reasonably effective approach for A/B testing. Essentially, you want a uniformly random sample of your users, but you also want to enforce some properties about "connectedness" of the users in the sample, since user-user interaction might be an interesting metric to track. I think the buzzwords related to this sort of thing is "causal inference." Based on the performance of some sample, you might decide to tweak the feature and release it to a new sample. The buzzwords for this would be "bandit algorithms."