Matthew GreenDoes 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?
Davide Eynard (+mala)@matthew_d_green well, what many tried to explain when Elon was talking about opensourcing it, there is no “the algorithm” unless you consider it as the orchestration of many different ones, trained on different features. Also, my personal opinion is that these algos (from any social network actually) are not useful “outside” their platform as they use features a regular user cannot access and their ultimate goal is some KR which is not necessarily “being good for the users”.
@matthew_d_green currently I am more interested in building a new one, which just works on public data and comes with plenty of docs/examples one can play with. It does not have to be perfect, just provide some easily interpretable criterion to rank posts differently from reverse chronological, and allow people to understand the basic principles it works on.