twitter/the-algorithm

Re:twitter/the-algorithm by akhmatova on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:21PM (#31161528)

You know this how? Because you were that guy?

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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:36PM (#31161711)

A quick Google (ironically) confirms this has happened, beyond the anecdotal evidence of people (including me) who remember it on several occasions.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-google-engineer-says-glitch...

I'm not making any comment on the theory in the article, but it has certainly happened.

Edit: more context in thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31161790

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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by sjtindell on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:46PM (#31161790)

Mellosouls posted a link to a toxic source, and the article doesn’t even have anything in it except empty speculation based on nonsense. Brutal. Either the psyops have reached HN or the level of intellectual honesty about these topics is trash. Or both.

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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:50PM (#31161845)

I lifted the source indirectly from Google's own results (it was linked to from the Mail online), I have no idea of the general toxicity or otherwise of the website itself.

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Re:twitter/the-algorithm by mellosouls on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:57PM (#31161905)

Update: here's a Twitter thread linked from Google's Tweet denying any bias in the incident. Make of it what you will.

https://twitter.com/CharlieNash/status/1285612797028700160

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