Following multiple complaints from Twitter users saying that their Twitter feed is swamped with accounts they don’t particularly enjoy seeing, Twitter’s CEO explained how the new platform’s algorithm works.
“Trashing accounts that you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts, as it is keying off of your interactions. Basically saying if you love trashing *that* account, then you will probably also love trashing *this* account. Not actually wrong lol,” said Musk in a tweet today.
A Twitter user explained to Musk that despite not interacting with sports content, it keeps appearing on her timeline. She advised the CEO “to be less pushy with content.”
Musk assured all users that the recommendation algorithm will get much better and it will be open source.
Trashing accounts that you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts, as it is keying off of your interactions.
Basically saying if you love trashing *that* account, then you will probably also love trashing *this* account. Not actually wrong lol.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2023
Prior to this explanation, Musk had a question for his followers, “Instagram makes people depressed and Twitter makes people angry. Which is better?”
When he was completely altering Twitter’s conditions, had announced that the company would “no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms.”
Users would thus be barred, for example, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter said.
Yet, he’s out there asking followers about what’s better, his newly acquired platform or Mark Zuckenberg’s, which does count as a sort of promotion since he has over 126 million followers.
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