If it’s okay with all of you, I’d like to read you something I personally wrote as I thought about these issues. I’ll also tweet it out now.
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Looking at the data, we analyzed tweets sent by all members of the House and Senate, and found no statistically significant difference between the number of times a tweet by a Democrat is viewed versus a Republican, even after our ranking and filtering of tweets has been applied.
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Also, there’s a distinction we need to make clear. When people follow you, you’ve earned that audience. And we have a responsibility to make sure they can see your tweets. We do not have a responsibility, nor you a right, to amplify your tweets to audiences that don’t follow you.
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What our algorithms decide to show in shared spaces, like search results, is based on thousands of signals that constantly learn and evolve over time. Some of those signals are engagement, some are the number of abuse reports. We balance all of these to prevent gaming our system.
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We acknowledge the growing concern people have of the power held by companies like Twitter. We believe it’s dangerous to ask Twitter to regulate opinions or be the arbiter of truth. We’d rather be judged by the impartiality of outcomes, and criticized when we fail this principle.
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In closing, when I think of our work, I think of my mom and dad in St. Louis, a Democrat and a Republican. We had lots of frustrating and heated debates, but looking back, I appreciate I was able to hear and challenge different perspectives. And I appreciate I felt safe to do so.
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We believe Twitter helps people connect to something bigger than themselves, shows all the amazing things happening in the world, and all the things we need to acknowledge and address. We‘re constantly learning how to make it freer and healthier for all to participate. Thank you.
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Seriously?? Here, let me save you a lot of time and money: Give me my timeline. Straight from the people I follow. Period.
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How can you not misinterpret the desires of millions of people who say to you stop with the algorithms? we don't need your help on deciding what we see. Jesus f'ing Christ
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how about you just let me see chronologically the tweets from people i follow? you know, what twitter was back before you destroyed it with social justice and propaganda.
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Bruh you gotta teach your machine to be impartial?
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We don't want that. Jesus, did you ever LISTEN to your users? None of us are asking for that. Stop this machine learning nonsense and just show us the people we follow, and what they tweet and retweet (not what they like) in chronological order. Stop overcomplicating things.
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Do you really exist Jack... Tell the truth..,
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Please enable a do it yourself option for those of us who simply want to pick who we want to follow and see posts in chronological order. Edit button would be nice as well.
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CHRONOLOGICAL FUCKING ORDER
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STOP. I just want my feed in chronological order. That's it.
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So then why did you ban Alex Jones?
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Impossible because your doctrine and that of your staff leans in a particular direction, you will employ developers with the same view and they will create biased algorithms
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