Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine

Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by tick_tock_tick on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:16PM (#35393783)

> I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach."

LOL they are desperate for reach. Incredibly so; have you not listen to any podcast by them? They are begging people to go to their site. They get a fraction of the organic traffic they used to and nearly everything is driven from other site like Twitter, Google News, Facebook, etc. The internet age has not been kind to classic news orgs.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by astrange on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#35393904)

The NYT has been doing great recently. They're probably the legacy news company that's doing the best online of anyone.

That's on the strength of having a lot of verticals like games, recipes and Wirecutter though.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by adamrezich on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:36PM (#35393990)

have you seen @nyttypos and (to a lesser extent) @nyt_diff? NYT online editorial standards are hilariously abysmal.

https://twitter.com/nyttypos

https://twitter.com/nyt_diff

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by astrange on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:18PM (#35394472)

Yeah and it doesn't matter.

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by adamrezich on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:06PM (#35394985)

correctly writing words and punctuation on the page digitally printed by "the legacy news company that's doing the best online of anyone" doesn't matter at all? isn't that like the bare minimum of what their job consists of?

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by astrange on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:44PM (#35395303)

I was responding to a post saying they weren't getting online traffic by saying they are getting online traffic. Nothing about the quality of their content.

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