Or, more accurately, 4. your ephemeral thoughts 7. to maximize 1. on twitter 10. incoherence 3. selects and sequences 5. in a way 8. the time spent 12. selling 13. ads 9. in contextless 2. an opaque sampling algorithm 11. while 6. designed
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An opaque algorithm that you yourself are helping to train. I notice a huge difference in my tl when I am passive (purposely refrain from interacting with tweets) and when I retweet/respond normally.
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Yep. The reinforcements constrain exposure in a way that most users explicitly reject as desirable.
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i’ve started muting every account that has promoted tweets which show up on my timeline. i’m up to 96 accounts over 3 days. i’m getting fewer ads now.

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135 tweets on my timeline now and not a single ad
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And if you ever say something out of line, you can be fired, maybe years later. On the upside..., wait, what's the upside here?
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Make it stop, Ludovico; I’m cured(?)
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