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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by kayodelycaon on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:38PM (#35392350)
The importance of Twitter was it being the primary posting location for a lot of things. A number of the artists and other creatives I know have gotten absolutely gutted by this.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by nicky0 on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:05PM (#35392781)
Gutted about what exactly? Twitter is still there and pretty much works like before.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by culi on Saturday April 01, 2023 @02:02AM (#35397569)
> pretty much works like before

... did you see the source code? Blue checkmarks are weighted 4x as much as non-checkmarks. That's just one example of a major change that wouldn't have happened were it not for Elon

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by kaba0 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @03:25AM (#35398032)
Except when it doesn’t because somebody was so competent and fired more than half of the engineers.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by nonethewiser on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:53PM (#35393490)
By open sourcing the algorithm? Or what?
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