HNGlance

Top Best New Show

Twitter recommendation algorithm was using absolute block count

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1624660886572126209

by pr337h4m • 3 years ago

7 2 3 years ago

TW

Related Stories

Loading related stories...

Comments

2

jck• 3 years ago

Recommendation algorithm was using absolute block count, rather than percentile block count, causing accounts with many followers to be dumped,

Can someone explain this part to me?

If the system used just absolute block counts then tweets from popular polarizing people like Trump would go nowhere since their block count would be many orders of magnitude higher than most of the userbase.

sparky_z• 3 years ago

Trump hasn't been on Twitter for years now. I assumed this was a recent bug, as Musk recently complained that his own tweet engagement had plummeted.

Source preview

twitter.com

HNGlance

© 2024-2026 HN Glance. Story content belongs to its original sources.

Privacy
Terms