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The idea that you get news from FB and Twitter is fundamentally flawed. FB/Twitter are known to have algorithms designed to show you things that you will like
by addicted 9y ago
The idea that you get news from FB and Twitter is fundamentally flawed.
FB/Twitter are known to have algorithms designed to show you things that you will like (because people stop using Twitter/FB if they see stuff that makes them unhappy). While newspapers have this to a certain extent (all those "Drink 2 glasses of wine a day to live longer" articles) since they aren't targeted based on your individual preferences you still get a very wide variety of news sticking to only a single newspaper, and pretty much all the news if you mix in 2 or 3.
- digi_owl 9y agoFB sure, as they have made it harder and harder to flip the feed to chronological. But Twitter? I know they insert this whole "in case you missed" but most of the feed is still chronological. A very different problem is with having overly prolific retweeters in your feed, but that is a problem of your making, not Twitter's.
- rainbowmverse 9y agoTwitter is slowly rolling out an algorithmic feed. It returns to chronological once you refresh, but sometimes I forget and don't realize until I start noticing things are out of order.
- brainfire 9y agoIs it possible to set Twitter (not a third party client) to show you all unread items- that is, to give you a gap-free view of your feed? Or is it still just "whatever was most recent, mostly"?
- addicted 9y agoI don't believe Twitter is doing as much algorithmic targeting as Facebook is for sure, but I believe the likelihood of that changing is very high. They need to justify that $13bn market cap.