Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm

Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by soheil on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:38AM (#31053158)

I think that's what everyone is talking about. They're just using the term algorithm colloquially.

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by gfodor on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:59AM (#31053346)

I don’t think so - because releasing the data is a massive hill comparatively due to the immense privacy and legal issues.

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by soheil on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:55PM (#31057165)

Hmm Twitter already sells its "firehose" to the highest bidder.

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by gfodor on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:17PM (#31057869)

I’m sure twitters algorithms take advantage of all interaction data, like impressions, scrolls, and clicks. Agree tho it’s good a lot of the data is public.

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by soheil on Saturday April 16, 2022 @11:17PM (#31058161)

Publishing user scrolls is a "massive hill" and a legal/privacy nightmare?

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by gfodor on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:32AM (#31059191)

Sure seems like it could be - I wouldn’t opt-in to allowing mine to be distributed, why would I? And I don’t think Twitter has the rights to do so. So you’d at least need to solve the anonymization problem, or you’d have to package a data release such that you can replicate the ranking algorithm without it.

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Re:Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm by soheil on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:45AM (#31067524)

User clicks in form of "likes" are already public so why would scroll data be so sacred?

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