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Or is it six cats in a basement with a laser pointer and a mouse? The point of releasing it is to let people know exactly why they see the tweets they do in th
by ProAm 4y ago
Or is it six cats in a basement with a laser pointer and a mouse?
The point of releasing it is to let people know exactly why they see the tweets they do in the order they do. I hope Elon just goes back to time base ordering of tweets.
- LordDragonfang 4y agoI personally know a FAANG employee whose full time job is building tools to try and help understand why the company's recommendation algorithm picks the things it does (and more specifically, predict how changes to the algo will affect that). Even the people who build these systems barely know what the algorithm is going to do, much less why. It will be a herculean task to try and convey that to an average user.
- shrimpx 4y agoRight. Also, it takes a new eng hire N years to gain a working understanding of the small subset of code that their team produces.
- nthot 4y agoDisclaimer: I'm pretty new to twitter, so I may be misunderstanding something. On my Twitter Home Screen there are three little stars on the upper right of the central container which allow you to toggle between "top tweets" (ie. 'The Algorithm') and "latest tweets" which is the time based ordering.
- UncleMeat 4y agoWhat you are misunderstanding is that there is more social clout to be gained by complaining about twitter than exploring the available features. The ability to sort by latest doesn't stop people from feeling self righteous by demanding this feature exist.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoYou understand it, it's just like instagram, facebook, reddit etc, you let them pick something for you via some algo or you order by date.
- buu700 4y agoMaybe it's a room full of lava lamps.