Like, how do you think ranking works? There are models/weights...

Like, how do you think ranking works? There are models/weights that determine a tweet's ranks that haven't been released and we know, e.g., Elon tweets, are now extremely highly weighted.

The NYT reported that Elon tweets have 1000x weight and the fatigue filter is disabled, but let's say their sources are wrong and there is no explicit special casing in ranking.

It's still the case that people report seeing way more Elon than before. How do you think this metrics data is being used?

Like 31 Mar 2023 at 19:47 | Open on mastodon.social

3 comments

Hannah Copestake

@danluu I'm not sure but it feels like collecting this information and labelling users like this would breach GDPR? Political affiliation comes under special category data - you have to have a damn good reason to collect - let alone be using it in this way. I know GDPR only applies to EU citizens (and the UK for now) but we don't know how they're labelling users with this do we?

31 Mar 2023 at 22:45 | Open on solarpunk.moe

Mostly Harmless (Cam Johnson)

@danluu I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he planted these values there just to get to be the good guy and remove them. He already said expect it to be “embarrassing,” and seriously who names a metric “author_is_republican”

1 Apr 2023 at 0:02 | Open on muskless.social

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@danluu Do you know how much elon you see if you delete twitter? Well to be honest still more than I would like but it has to be somewhat less horrible.

1 Apr 2023 at 0:43 | Open on mastodon.social