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Get rid of the algorithmic timeline and make everything chronological. Manipulation and gaming over.
by basisword 5y ago
Get rid of the algorithmic timeline and make everything chronological. Manipulation and gaming over.
- ridaj 5y agoThat would also get rid of users. It's pretty clear that chronological ordering is non-optimal for engagement in a feed system.
- basisword 5y agoIf Musk really cares about free speech, speech should be more important than user engagement and algorithms manipulate the visibility of speech. They should be the first thing to go.
- ridaj 5y agoAnd revenue will shrink accordingly. If that's his plan, he's right that it can only happen in a private company. Otherwise the resulting revenue deceleration will send Twitter into a stock price self-fulfilling tailspin as stockholders start seeing it as a doomed platform.
- 3pt14159 5y agoI just wish we would implement a system where users vouch for each other in order to use the platform. A sort of web-of-trust to stamp out (or at least temporarily punish) whole areas of the social graph that are being used for manipulation and abuse.