Eep: I have “liked” 21K tweets (poor life choices). So much signal, yet my feed’s so noisy! Is 21K “not enough” to train a good recommender?
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Or is Twitter just bad at this? e.g. I’ve upvoted maybe 50 things on Quora and followed ~10 topics, and the filtering seems much better?
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Quora seems to have an easier/narrower spec (relevant/interesting content). I'd like to see Twitter identify which tweets I think are funny
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If Twitter were the public infra I wish it was, I could try to build a personal recommender off of “the firehose,” but alas, not an option.
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Yeah, for sure! Remember the algorithmic timeline hubbub last year? But it seems like maybe not enough of a thing?
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Oh it is enough, Prismatic was pretty good, and it seeded itself from my Twitter feed.
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first question: 21k positive to how many viewed (per "topic area")? also, iirc Twitter was reluctant to move toward curated feed?
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Right! The answer would probably reveal more very poor life choices. 10^6 or 10^7 viewed, I’d guess?
(also I owe you an email—soon! 🙇)
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I think what’s lacking is the training bit. I’m not at all sure Twitter does much personal like-based (née star-based) training.