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Re:Bitcoin falls below $13K by gk1 on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:38AM (#15987293)
Sites like Bloomberg often run A/B tests on headlines before choosing the winner. You can see the original title (another variation) in the URL.
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Re:Bitcoin falls below $13K by headlinecop123 on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:40AM (#15987302)
When I posted the comment, the hackernews submission was titled something along the lines of "Bitcoin recovering from 13k drop"; it has since been changed.
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Re:Bitcoin falls below $13K by cm2187 on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:56AM (#15987418)
Stating the obvious: because it's not recovering anymore. It is under 12k right now
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Re:Bitcoin falls below $13K by eganist on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:42AM (#15987315)
Concur, which is why I flagged the original submission. Seems like they tweaked it even though they're still not on the Bloomberg headline.
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Re:Bitcoin falls below $13K by adtac on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:58AM (#15987433)
What do they try to optimise? Number of clicks per minute? Do the writer submit a bunch of titles to the dashboard from which the system A/B tests? Or do they manually try different variants?
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