Chris Trottier on Nostr: Elon Musk actually kept a promise and released the source code to Twitter’s ...
Elon Musk actually kept a promise and released the source code to Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm.
And it reveals a lot.
A key learning is that—unless you’re famous—if you put a link into a tweet, you’re pretty much treated like a spammer because Twitter HATES links!
And why is this?
Because Twitter (and Big Social) will kneecap interoperability every chance they get because they HATE they open web.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
And it reveals a lot.
A key learning is that—unless you’re famous—if you put a link into a tweet, you’re pretty much treated like a spammer because Twitter HATES links!
And why is this?
Because Twitter (and Big Social) will kneecap interoperability every chance they get because they HATE they open web.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm