Twitter: Algo timeline best timeline, but you can turn it off Me: *tries it* Me: Oh god this is like reading a top-quoted email Me: *turns it off* Twitter: We put an algo selection of your friends’ likes in your feed! You can’t turn it off! Twitter: *shows same likes over & over*
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It's almost like they've built their entire business around that as a metric. I really like Zeynep Tufekci's analogy that engagement-driven algorithmic feeds optimize for the emotional equivalent of high-sugar, -salt, and -fat junk foods.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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