The Twitter algorithm is open source, unlike the algorithm for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. I'm not aware of any evidence for bias in the algorithm.
It's not though. The GitHub repo was never updated once. Here's an experiment for you: open X in a new private tab and count political posts, see how many of them are far right. Bias is evident.
There's been a lot of anecdotal reports circulating that retweets don't work anymore, likes slightly better, quote tweets do best, links should be in replies, etc. They're hiding a lot of quote tweets as "unavailable" and shuffling thread orders as well. Twitter right now is not just biased, but they have been struggling for a long while to disrupt its resilient emergent meritocracy that don't favor Musk.
The platform is still usable, just block anyone who posts politics in your timeline, eventually it all becomes technical stuff.
It still normalizes use of what has effectively become a far-right propaganda machine and thus the purposeful destruction of democratic institutions.
Thats how conservatives feel on many other online platforms with far left views.
Which big platform has far left views?
I'm not familiar of any platform that calls for collective ownership of the means of production, land redistribution and other far left positions.
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The Twitter algorithm is open source, unlike the algorithm for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. I'm not aware of any evidence for bias in the algorithm.
It's not though. The GitHub repo was never updated once. Here's an experiment for you: open X in a new private tab and count political posts, see how many of them are far right. Bias is evident.
> The GitHub repo was never updated once.
Pretty sure that's false: I remember seeing the recent commit that made Grok misbehave.
> Here's an experiment for you: open X in a new private tab and count political posts, see how many of them are far right. Bias is evident.
Go to Bluesky and count far left posts. The result will be similar, because political bubbles form by themselves.
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There's been a lot of anecdotal reports circulating that retweets don't work anymore, likes slightly better, quote tweets do best, links should be in replies, etc. They're hiding a lot of quote tweets as "unavailable" and shuffling thread orders as well. Twitter right now is not just biased, but they have been struggling for a long while to disrupt its resilient emergent meritocracy that don't favor Musk.