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Thanks for the shares! What are your thoughts on twitter making its recommendation algorithm open source?

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Would be interesting to see the changes moving forward, provided that this isn't just a "one-and-done". A challenge moving forward would be if they start using AI language models to start ranking content, a new "black box" would be introduced.

The few times I was using twitter, I never liked the "For you page" and the way it was build explains why. It may not have been intended to do this, but the algorithm seems perfectly designed to boost "preaching to the choir". It's fascinating how just a couple of ranking changes can change so many people's behavior.

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