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Their curated trends team was noticeably axed. There's no more context added to any trend anymore.
by rabuse 4y ago
Their curated trends team was noticeably axed. There's no more context added to any trend anymore.
- crackercrews 4y agoI found the curated trends to be highly biased. They would elevate weeks-old events, claiming they had just happened. This always involved news items that fit a certain ideological bent. Seeing that made the timeline algorithm suspect in my mind.
- rabuse 4y agoOh I agree, it's just something I've noticed has disappeared.
- logicalmonster 4y agoPutting aside the accusation of bias for a second, which is obviously hard to prove, 2 things come to mind. 1) Why would it take a team to do this job? Was it a large team? I joke, but seeing what's trending and giving a short human description could seemingly be done by a part-time intern while on a bathroom break. I could imagine some reasons for this, but I'm curious. 2) Perhaps a company that's been bleeding money doesn't need to spend money on these kind of roles? You hate to see anybody lose a good job, but it's better than the entire company going under because you can never turn a profit.
- plorkyeran 4y agoThe trending topics were hyper-localized, often down to the city. It's a very small task that they scaled up to a massive degree. Twitter pre-acquisition wasn't bleeding money, and it's plausible that these positions had positive ROI if they increased engagement and thus ad views.