Does the twitter api give us enough control to write our own feed algorithm?
And is Latest Tweets really latest tweets or just a slightly more reverse chronological Top Tweets?
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Tried the new “follow topics” feature but it seems a depressing backward step towards yahoo directory.
What I’d like to really do is tune by tweet type rather than either topic or person. More shitposting, fewer representing, sermonizing posts etc.
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My dream algorithm
1. Auto-cluster tweets per user (shitposting, representing, thought leadering, shilling, sharing, thinking aloud) and auto follow/unfollow dynamically based on that.
2. Live filter resulting first-pass output by mood (restless, serious, beefy)
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Sadly a person’s timeline is all-too-honest a measure of how they value their time. Which is often a grating reminder of dissonance between how important they are to themselves versus to me. Relative self-importance is probably my biggest unfollow/disengage signal.
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I think I like feeds best when their self-importance matches perceived-importance by me. Twitter is probably a bunch of graph islands of mutually consistent importance assess,rents (ie people’s assessments of each other’s and their own importance is consistent)
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It probably has the features necessary, but I'm pretty sure you'd run afoul of their ToS for "substantially similar functionality" if you offered it to others
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The API gives you enough control. I use it to get a chronological (not reverse chronological) feed, nntp style.
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