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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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huh interesting, this strikes me as universally true > I think I like /people/ best when their self-importance matches perceived-importance by me obvious why over-importance is annoying, but what about someone who downplays it?
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That’s generally a signal they want to be left alone more than their natural attention worthiness would allow so I tend to respect it and leave them alone Sometimes it is insecurity which dulls their interestingness