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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:46AM (#35399131)
It's an incredible coincidence that, out of hundreds of millions of accounts, this bug happened to elevate the account of the person who owns twitter. I'm not saying it was 100% intentional, but it does suggest Musk's account is 'special' in some way.
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by mlindner on Saturday April 01, 2023 @05:13PM (#35404124)
Did anyone look to see if anyone else was also elevated? Surely there's an extreme measurement bias if the highest followed account gets boosted. There's no evidence to support the idea that only Elon Musk was elevated.
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