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Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm
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[Feature] Time-sensitive tweets #1790

Open Christophvh opened 1 year ago

Christophvh commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Some tweets are only relevant in a specific order or until a specific time. For example, I follow a bunch of Football (soccer) pages. They often tweet about score updates. But the current algorithm often shows me the tweets a day after or in the wrong order.

Describe the solution you'd like When tweeting, the user can indicate that the tweet is time-sensitive.

TolstoyDotCom commented 1 year ago

I don't really follow people and my 社会信用体系 is low so I don't have the features others might, but on trending pages Twitter has a "Top" tab (that uses their beyond-flawed algorithm) and a "Latest" tab (which is probably also filtered but at least shows things in date order DESC).

What if they generalized that to other pages and had a select with "Sort by our flawed idea of quality", "Sort by date", etc and maybe other filters like "From people I follow", "From people those I follow follow", "Surprise me", etc etc? Bonus: add a "don't show scores" checkbox. Twitter could remember your settings for various pages.

I'm not saying Twitter is competent enough to implement that, but if they were wouldn't that solve the problem?