Comment by cubefox
16 days ago
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.
16 days ago
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.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
Not updated in two years.
> Go to Bluesky...
At least people are not fantasizing about "race wars" or discussing the "jewsish question" there. Two subjects I saw multiple times on X's front page.
This attempted equivalence is wild. I'm not sure if you're uninformed or malicious, but "far right posts" means posts talking about "the jews taking over" or some other racist drivel and discussing which minority to attack next.
"Far left posts" are like, what, people should have access to healthcare? People should pay more taxes?
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Nazi bubbles form naturally around nazi owners.
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.