Re:Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]
by ajorgensen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:57PM
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I would venture to guess that 80%+ of the handles are the same on both, enough for the graph to be useful especially for the more popular accounts. If not I bet there’s enough other metadata to do a decent job of mapping them it doesn’t have to be perfect just good enough to get the recommendation engine going. At least enough to bootstrap a recommendation algorithm that is geared more toward primary accounts that create text based content.
Re:Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]
by user_named on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:40PM
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Who cares about your guess? You're just doubling down on your previous faulty argument, and anyone would know that there is not a 1:1 between handles on Instagram and Twitter
> What use is a follower graph if it doesn't correlate to the accounts on your platform?
Is asking about the point of scraping your Twitter social graph if they can’t actually align it with accounts on the platform. If you follow foo bar on Twitter, it doesn’t mean that foo bar on threads is the same foo bar. The Twitter social graph is useless unless to try to map to meta accounts.