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Yeah lots of "I think I heard somewhere that..." in this discussion.
by fknorangesite 4y ago
Yeah lots of "I think I heard somewhere that..." in this discussion.
- Retr0id 4y agoDo you really expect twitter employees to be out here divulging the inner workings of the twitter algorithm? If you've used twitter for any length of time, it's plain to see. My most recent blog post[1] has been pinned to the top of my twitter profile for almost a year. It's technically detailed and very "on-brand" for my audience (it's about rooting a smart TV) It has 341 "likes" and 93,543 impressions (unfortunately I can't tell you how many hits the actual blog post got, I don't keep logs - but it's probably a smaller number) Yesterday I tweeted a ~280 character idle thought midway through my morning coffee[2]. It lacks technical depth and is largely unsurprising. It has 1356 "likes" and 147K impressions already. Whether twitter explicitly has code to downrank external links is irrelevant - the effects are obvious and quantifiable[3]. It's probably just a second-order effect of boosting posts that generate further in-app engagement - but that doesn't really matter either way. [1] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1475670055627247619 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1475670055627247619 [2] https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1584462389977939968 https://twitter.com/David3141593/status/1584462389977939968 [3] https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/ https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/
- fknorangesite 4y agoOkay? I'm not saying that's it's not the case, but you're the first person in this whole thread to bother with any kind of source at all.
- Retr0id 4y agoMy broader point is more that "lots of people are saying so" is about as good as we can hope for in terms of evidence, in this situation.