Does anyone who used to work at Twitter want to tell us how the algorithm worked, now that the whole thing is about to burn down anyway?
@matthew_d_green I don't know about Twitter but there was an interesting Gizmodo piece from May about Facebook News Feed algorithm (with a big collection of actual leaked documents which I didn't have time to read): https://gizmodo.com/facebook-news-feed-ranking-algorithms-how-they-work-1848814459
Here's What the Facebook Papers Say About the Ranking Algorithms That Control Your News Feed

Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors.

Gizmodo